| 单词 | to make vaunt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make (one's or a) vaunt 2. to make (one's or a) vaunt, to boast or brag. Also const. of something. Now rare. 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- (a) (b)c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lii. 177 Make no vaunt of ony thynge without thou canst do it in dede, for in euery thynge I wyll proue thee.1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke 51 Many make vauntes and crakes of hauing visions of Aungels, whiche they yet neuer sawe.1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Cccc4v/2 To make a vaunt of a Thing, to boast of it.(c)1586 G. Whitney Choice of Emblemes 228 Then, let him not make vaunt of his desert.1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. iv. 114 He stoutly denied the facts of which the leaguers made vaunt.1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 619/2 He made his vaunte that he wolde beate me. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. iii. f. 105 The christians..whom thou haste..threated to drawe by the heare of their heades to the nexte ryuer..thou haste often tymes made thy vaunte emonge thy naked slaues. 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 5 [I] am an inch beneath him, as he ons made his vaunt. < as lemmas |
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