Boast Definition

bōst
boasted, boasting, boasts
verb
boasted, boasting, boasts
To talk or write about oneself or something related to oneself in a proud or self-admiring way.
American Heritage
To talk proudly about deeds, abilities, etc., either one's own or those of someone close to one, esp. in a manner showing too much pride and satisfaction; brag.
Webster's New World
To do preliminary shaping on (sculpture, stonework, etc.) with a broad chisel.
Webster's New World
To be vainly proud; exult.
Webster's New World
To boast about.
Webster's New World
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noun
boasts
The act of one who boasts.
Webster's New World
A source of pride.
American Heritage
Anything boasted of.
Webster's New World

A brag, a loud positive appraisal of oneself.

Wiktionary

(squash (sport)) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Boast

Noun

Singular:
boast
Plural:
boasts

Origin of Boast

  • From Middle English boosten, bosten, from bost (“boast, glory, noise, arrogance, presumption, pride, vanity”), probably of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bausuz (“inflated, swollen, puffed up, proud, arrogant, bad”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bew- (“to blow, inflate, swell”). Cognate with Scots bost, boist (“to threaten, brag, boast”), Anglo-Norman bost ("ostentation"; < Germanic). Related to Norwegian baus (“proud, bold, daring”), German dialectal baustern (“to swell”), German böse (“evil, bad, angry”), Dutch boos (“evil, wicked, angry”), West Frisian boas (“bad, wicked, angry, shrewd, clever”). Compare also Norwegian dialectal bausta, busta (“to rush onward, make a noise”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English bosten from bost a brag

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Origin unknown

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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