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boasting

/ˈboʊstɪŋ/ noun B2
  1. The making of boasts. (uncountable)
  2. An individual boast or bout of boasting.

Plural boastings

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## The Boasting Traveler
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 14 · B2
A DOVE shut up in a cage was boasting of the large number of young ones which she had hatched.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 88 · B2
A Crow hearing her, said: “My good friend, cease from this unseasonable boasting.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 88 · B2
After a few minutes’ reflection, however, she continued, “I _do_ remember his boasting one day, at Netherfield, of the implacability of his resentments, of his having an unforgiving temper.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 91 · B2

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