boastfullyadv.
In a boastful manner; vauntingly.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [adverb]
braga1375
boastfullyc1430
jettingly1440
flourishingly?1545
boastingly1552
bragginglya1569
thrasonically1591
vauntingly1593
braggadocio-like1600
vapouringly1653
bouncinglya1677
vauntful1814
braggart-like1826
c1430 Life St. Katherine (Gibbs) 55 Wher yn bostfully she enhaunceth hir self.
1845 Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors II. li. 269 Observing boastfully, ‘We inherit all our genius from our mother’.
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adv.c1430- to turn to grass
- to turn to matches
- to turn to or into flight
- to turn to ridicule
- to turn to shit
- to turn to the worst
- to turn to water
- to turn toeside
- to turn topple-tail
- to turn toppletail
- to turn turk
- to turn turn off the water
- to turn turtle
- to turn up
- to turn up a person's heels
- to turn up missing
- to turn up one's heels
- to turn up one's nose
- to turn up one's nose at
- to turn up rough
- to turn up the eggs ie the whites of one's eyes
- to turn up the eggs of one's eyes
- to turn up the little finger
- to turn up the whites of one's eyes
- to turn up to eleven