nnoun.communicationan instance of boastful talkSynset:bragging crow crowing gasconade line-shooting vaporing
Examples:- his brag is worse than his fight
- whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade
Derivationally Related Form:crowbraggasconadebraggy
Hypernyms:boast boasting jactitation self-praise
Inherited Hypernyms:bragboastspeech actacteventpsychological featureabstractionentity
vverb.communicationshow offSynset:blow bluster boast gas gasconade shoot a line swash tout vaunt
Derivationally Related Form:vaunterboasterblustererbraggartblusterbraggervauntbragboastgasconade
Hypernyms:amplify exaggerate hyperbolise hyperbolize magnify overdraw overstate
Inherited Hypernyms:boastoverstatemisinforminformcommunicateinteractact
Direct Hyponyms:crowgloatpufftriumph
Full Troponyms:gloatpreenpuff
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s | Somebody ---s to somebody | Somebody ---s that CLAUSE | Somebody ---s PP
adj satadj.allexceptionally goodDomain Usage:colloquialism
Synset:boss
Examples:- a boss hand at carpentry
- his brag cornfield
Antonyms:inferior
Inherited Hypernyms:boss
Similar to:superior