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单词 goster
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gosterv.

Forms: Also gauster, gosther, goyster, gowster.
Etymology: dialect survival of Middle English galstre v.
dialect.
intransitive. To behave in a noisy, boisterous, or swaggering fashion; to brag or boast; in some localities, to laugh noisily.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > boast [verb (intransitive)]
yelpc888
kebc1315
glorify1340
to make avauntc1340
boast1377
brag1377
to shake boastc1380
glorya1382
to make (one's) boastc1385
crackc1470
avaunt1471
glaster1513
voust1513
to make (one's or a) vauntc1515
jet?1521
vaunt?1521
crowa1529
rail1530
devauntc1540
brave1549
vaunt1611
thrasonize1619
vapour1629
ostentate1670
goster1673
flourish1674
rodomontade1681
taper1683
gasconade1717
stump1721
rift1794
mang1819
snigger1823
gab1825
cackle1847
to talk horse1855
skite1857
to blow (also U.S. toot) one's own horn1859
to shoot off one's mouth1864
spreadeagle1866
swank1874
bum1877
to sound off1918
woof1934
to shoot a line1941
to honk off1952
to mouth off1958
blow-
1673 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 67 Goyster, to be frolick and ramp, to laugh aloud, Suss.
1691 J. Ray N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 30 Gauster, as Goyster.
1734 Lady B. Germain in 9th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1904) I. App. iii. 157 Upon which I could not hold, but fell a laughing as loud as Horace could ‘goster’ himself.
1825 T. C. Croker Fairy Legends & Trad. S. Ireland I. 169 Some people used to wink and look knowing when Felix was gostering.
1839 W. Carleton Fardorougha (ed. 2) 70 We're idlin' an' gostherin away our time like I dunna what.
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Gauster, to laugh loudly; to be noisy; to swagger.
1879 E. Waugh Chimney Corner 89 He began o' gosterin' an' talkin' about th' horses—he'd ha' this done, an' he'd ha' that done, or else [etc.].

Derivatives

ˈgoster n. the action of the verb.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun]
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yelpinga1050
roosingc1175
boastc1300
avauntment1303
avauntry1330
vauntingc1340
bragc1360
avauntingc1380
boastingc1380
avauntance1393
angarda1400
bragging1399
vaunta1400
crackingc1440
crackc1450
crowing1484
jactancea1492
vaunterya1492
bragancea1500
gloriation?1504
blasta1513
vousting1535
braggery?1571
jactation1576
self-boasting1577
thrasonism1596
braggartry1598
braggartism1601
jactancy1623
braggadocianism1624
blazing1628
jactitation1632
word-braving1642
rodomontadea1648
fanfaronade1652
superbiloquence1656
vapouring1656
rodomontading1661
blow1684
goster1703
gasconade1709
gasconading1709
vauntingness1727
braggadocioa1734
Gasconism1744
Gascoigny1754
braggade1763
gostering1763
penny trumpet1783
cockalorum?a1792
boastfulness1810
vauntage1818
bull-flesh1820
blowing1840
vauntiness1851
kompology1854
loud-mouthing1858
skite1860
gabbing1869
mouth1891
buck1895
skiting1916
boosterism1926
1703 R. Thoresby Let. 27 Apr. in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 422 Gauster, a hearty loud laughter.
1736 J. Lewis Hist. Isle Tenet (ed. 2) 37 Goyster, to laugh aloud; ‘a goystering Wench’, a Boy-maid, or a Lad-lass.
1806–29 T. Moore Ballads (Galignani 1829) 353 Poh, Dermot go along with your goster.
1836 T. Power Impressions of Amer. I. 376 Not another word could we coax out of him: he was, however, quite willing and able to make it up in good Irish, and much did I regret not being able to have a ‘goster’ with him.
1892 Athenæum 16 Apr. 496/3 The handsome, selfish Murdough so full of ‘gosther’ and brag.
1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 155 He was leaning on the counter..having a deep goster with Alderman Cowley.
1941 L. A. G. Strong Bay 181 Uncle John did not write letters. He would explain that a good gosther and a drink were better than a cold bit of paper.
ˈgostering n. and adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun]
yelpc888
yelpinga1050
roosingc1175
boastc1300
avauntment1303
avauntry1330
vauntingc1340
bragc1360
avauntingc1380
boastingc1380
avauntance1393
angarda1400
bragging1399
vaunta1400
crackingc1440
crackc1450
crowing1484
jactancea1492
vaunterya1492
bragancea1500
gloriation?1504
blasta1513
vousting1535
braggery?1571
jactation1576
self-boasting1577
thrasonism1596
braggartry1598
braggartism1601
jactancy1623
braggadocianism1624
blazing1628
jactitation1632
word-braving1642
rodomontadea1648
fanfaronade1652
superbiloquence1656
vapouring1656
rodomontading1661
blow1684
goster1703
gasconade1709
gasconading1709
vauntingness1727
braggadocioa1734
Gasconism1744
Gascoigny1754
braggade1763
gostering1763
penny trumpet1783
cockalorum?a1792
boastfulness1810
vauntage1818
bull-flesh1820
blowing1840
vauntiness1851
kompology1854
loud-mouthing1858
skite1860
gabbing1869
mouth1891
buck1895
skiting1916
boosterism1926
1763 ‘T. Bobbin’ Toy-shop (new ed.) 48 I con mex'n, keem, on fettle Tits, os weell os onny one on um aw, tho' theaw mey think it's gawstring.
1824 W. Carr Horæ Momenta Cravenæ Gaustering, imperious, boasting.
1892 E. Lawless Grania II. ii. 91 A gosthering, spending, having brood they are and always have been.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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