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boastful, a.|ˈbəʊstfʊl|
[f. boast n.1 + -ful.]
1. Of words or actions: Full of boasting.
c1325Coer de L. 3827 Bostful wurdes for to crake. c1440Bone Flor. 270 My doghtur gete ye noght, For all yowre bostefull fare. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, iv. Cho., Steed threatens Steed, in high and boastfull Neighs. 1867Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims vii. (1875) 171 We have had enough of these boastful recitals.
2. Of persons, or things personified: Given to boasting, ostentatious, self-praising. Const. in, of.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. I. 2 Þis riche man was boostful in speche. 1486Bk. St. Albans, Her. A v a, That he be not to bostfull of his manhod. 1779Johnson L.P. Wks. 1816 X. 20 Boastful of his own knowledge. 1859W. Whitmore G. Marlowe 10 Time wears to dust the boastful monuments.
†3. ? Menacing. Obs.
1382Wyclif 2 Sam. xii. 31 [David] sawede the puple of it, and ladde about upon hem boostful yren carris. |