| 单词 | to make boast |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make (one's) boast 4. Phrases. †to blow (a) boast: to boast, brag (cf. blow v.1, blast n.1 3b, blaze v.2). to make (one's) boast: to boast of, to glory in; also absol.; so †to shake boast: cf. Latin jactari. 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- c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 267 Mak of ȝoure trouthe in loue no bost ne soun. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) iv. 122 The gret bost [1489 Adv. boist] that it [sc. pryde] blawis. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. lviiiv He shakyth boost and oft doth hym auaunte Of fortunes fauour. 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iii. f. 41v Blaw furth ȝour boist busteous. 1594 (a1555) D. Lindsay Hist. Squyer Meldrum l. 266, in Wks. (1931) I. 153 Thair was, into the Inglis Oist, Ane Campioun that blew greit boist. 1611 Bible (King James) Psalms xxxiv. 2 My soule shall make her boast in the Lord. View more context for this quotation 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xxxix. 61 How often shall..she..bring her babe, and make her boast. < as lemmas |
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