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boast
/boʊst/
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What does boast mean?
noun
- A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.
- Something that one brags about.
- A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
More meanings (7)
verb
- To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
- [with about or of] To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
- To play a boast shot.
- To possess (a special and desirable quality).
- To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
- To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
- (obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
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IPA pronunciation
/boʊst/
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Even the poorly endowed churches of the villages boast the possession of miraculous thigh-bones of the innumerable saints of the Romish calendar.
Neath is a place of some antiquity, for it can boast of the remains of a castle and is a corporate town.
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I would as soon cram my boys with food and boast of the pounds they had eaten, as cram them with literature.’
Cockburn's boast to Key that the reduction of the city would be "a matter of a few hours" did not look improbable.
Mr. Darcy’s shameful boast of what misery he had been able to inflict gave her a keener sense of her sister’s sufferings.