boastfuladj.
/ˈbəʊstfʊl/ 1. Of words or actions: Full of boasting.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [adjective] > boastful > specifically of words or actions
boastfulc1325
self-boasting1599
vaunting1647
smack-talking1990
c1325 Coer de L. 3827 Bostful wurdes for to crake.
c1440 Bone Flor. 270 My doghtur gete ye noght, For all yowre bostefull fare.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. 0. 10 Steed threatens Steed, in high and boastfull Neighs. View more context for this quotation
1867 R. W. Emerson Lett. & Social Aims (1875) vii. 171 We have had enough of these boastful recitals.
2. Of persons, or things personified: Given to boasting, ostentatious, self-praising. Const. in, of.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [adjective] > boastful
boastyc1300
bragc1315
boastfulc1380
great-moutheda1425
boggishc1440
avauntinga1513
windy1513
blazing1549
thrasonical1564
vauntful1590
vousty1596
braggadocian1599
self-boasting1599
braggart1604
braggartly?1611
braggadocio1615
braggeda1616
ampullous1622
rodomontado1645
vapouring1649
thrasonic1657
rodomontade1660
flounder-mouthed1663
fanfaron1670
vaunty1724
boastivea1763
Falstaffian1809
bounceable1831
jactant1839
braggadocious1853
blow-hard1855
loud-mouthed1867
flannel-mouthed1884
bull-mouthed1896
poppy-show1896
Tartarin1903
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. I. 2 Þis riche man was boostful in speche.
1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. A v a That he be not to bostfull of his manhod.
1779 S. Johnson Smith in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets IV. 52 Boastful of his own knowledge.
1859 W. Whitmore G. Marlowe 10 Time wears to dust the boastful monuments.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > [adjective]
ticklec1325
boastful1382
threatinga1400
menacing?a1439
louringa1450
shoring1513
threatening1530
minatory1532
threatful?1567
minanta1657
minacious1660
menaceful1742
minitant1854
minitabund1890
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 2 Sam. xii. 31 [David] sawede the puple of it, and ladde about upon hem boostful yren carris.
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