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One who boasts; a braggart.

A boaster. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster. [Slang]

One who blatters; a babbler; a noisy, blustering boaster.

A senseless babbler or boaster. [Obs.] "I hate such blatteroons." Howell.

A boaster; a bully. [Collog.] Johnson.

A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer. Dryden.

A boaster. O, I could play the woman with mine eyes, And braggart with my tongue. Shak.

One who brags; a boaster.

A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. [Obs.] What cracker is this same that deafs our ears Shak.

us. -- De*spite"ful*ly, adv. -- De*spite"ful*ness, n. Haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters. Rom. i. 30. Pray for them which despitefully use you. Matt. v. 44. Let us examine him with despitefulness and fortune. Book of Wisdom ii. 19.

ne who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person. [Obs.] There be no greater talkers, nor boasters, nor fasers. Latimer.

A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster. [R.] Dryden.

A native of Gascony; a boaster; a bully. See Gasconade.

A great boaster; a blusterer.

A boaster. [Obs.] Greene.

A boaster. [Obs.] Fuller.

A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance. Lewd, shallow-brained huffs make atheism and contempt of religion the sole badge . . . of wit. South. To take huff, to take offence. Cowper.

One fond of display; a boaster. Sherwood.

A vain or blustering boaster; a braggart; a braggadocio. Sir T. Herbert.