boast

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -əʊst

Noun

boast (plural boasts)

1. A brag, a loud positive appraisal of oneself.
2. (squash (sport)) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.

Translations

brag

• Bulgarian: самохвалство (bg) (samohvalstvo) n
• Danish: pral (da) n
• Dutch: opscheppen (nl)
• Finnish: omakehu (fi)
• French: vantardise (fr) f, fanfaronnade (fr) f
• Hebrew: התרברבות (he) (hitravr'vút) f, התפארות (he) (hitpa'arút) f

• Icelandic: mont n, gort n, sjálfshól n, hólbaldur n (archaic)
• Italian: vanteria (it) f
• Norwegian: skryt (no) n
• Old English: ġielp (ang) m
• Quechua: anchaykachay (qu)
• Russian: хвастовство (ru) (xvastovstvó) n
• Slovak: chvastúňstvo (sk) n
• Swedish: skryt (sv) n

shot

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Verb

boast (third-person singular simple present boasts, present participle boasting, simple past and past participle boasted)

1. to brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 235c.

     On no account will he or any other kind be able to boast that he's escaped the pursuit of those who can follow so detailed and comprehensive a method of enquiry.

2. (squash (sport)) To play a boast shot
3. (ergative) To possess something special.

   The hotel boasts one of the best views of the sea.

Synonyms

• brag

Derived terms

• boastful
• boastfully
• outboast

Translations

to brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself

• Arabic: تباهى (ar) (tabāhā)
• Bulgarian: хваля се (bg) (hvalja se)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吹牛 (cmn) (chuīniú), 吹噓 (cmn), 吹嘘 (cmn) (chuīxū), 自誇 (cmn), 自夸 (cmn) (zìkuā)

• Czech: chlubit se (cs)
• Danish: prale (da)
• Dutch: zich bogen (nl)
• Ewe: ƒo aɖegbe
• Finnish: kerskailla (jollakin) , kerskua (jostakin) ,rehennellä , leuhkia, lesottaa (fi)
• French: se vanter (fr)
• German: angeben (de), prahlen (de)
• Hebrew: התרברב (he) (hitravrév), התפאר (he) (hitpa'ér)

• Irish:

  Old Irish: ar·báigi

• Italian: vantarsi (it)
• Japanese: 自慢する (ja) (じまんする, jiman suru), 力む (ja) (りきむ, rikimu)
• Norwegian: skryte (no)
• Old English: ġelpan (ang)
• Polish: przechwalać się (pl), szczycić się (pl), chlubić się (pl)
• Portuguese: ostentar (pt), se exibir (pt)
• Russian: хвастаться (ru) (xvástatʹsja), хвастать (ru) (xvástatʹ), бахвалиться (ru) (baxválitʹsja), хвалиться (ru) (xvalítʹsja)
• Slovak: chvastať sa (sk), vychvaľovať sa (sk)
• Spanish: ostentar (es)
• Swedish: skryta (sv), skrävla (sv)

Etymology 2

Verb

boast (third-person singular simple present boasts, present participle boasting, simple past and past participle boasted)

1. (masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.

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2. (sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.

Anagrams

• boats
• sabot