单词 | to boast it |
释义 | > as lemmasto boast it 3. intransitive. To speak vaingloriously, extol oneself; to vaunt, brag; to brag of, about, glory in. (So to boast it: to practise boasting.) 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- 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. ii. 80 To bakbite and to bosten · and bere fals witnesse. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 22289 He [sc. the Antichrist] sal men do of him to boost Ouer alle oþere to preise moost. c1475 (?c1425) Avowing of King Arthur (1984) l. 354 I, Kay, þat þou knawes, Þat owte of tyme bostus and blawus. 1587 J. Higgins Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) Stater v. 5 I neede not of honour or dignitie boast. 1611 Bible (King James) Psalms xliv. 8 In God we boast all the day long. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. vii. 23 Nor should that Nation boast it so with vs. View more context for this quotation 1655 Theophania 80 I can never consent that [he] should boast in any favor of mine. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 73. ¶2 He has not much to boast of. 1844 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. i. 4 To boast of the honours enjoyed by their remote ancestors. < as lemmas |
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