boastful
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- boastfull (archaic)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English bostful, equivalent to boast + -ful.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
boastful (comparative more boastful, superlative most boastful)
- Tending to boast or brag.
- He wrote a boastful autobiography, recording all his great deeds.
- 1839, Robert FitzRoy, Phillip Parker King, Charles Darwin, Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
- It makes one's blood boil, yet heart tremble, to think that we Englishmen and our American descendants, with their boastful cry of liberty, have been and are so guilty
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Translations[edit]
tending to boast or brag
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