boast
/boʊst/ noun C1- A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.
- Something that one brags about. · It was his regular boast that he could eat two full English breakfasts in one sitting.
- A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
Plural boasts
From the library
“A man, too, who could boast of Dante for a genealogist, and could reckon back to the Divina Comedia.”
Its owner lit it again, and said: “Boast no more, but henceforth be content to give thy light in silence.
They soon began to boast of their respective superiority to each other in strength and prowess.
Keep your journey a secret; do not boast of what you have come to Paris to do, or have done; return with all speed; enter Marseilles at night, and your house by the back-door, and there remain, quiet, submissive, secret, and, above all, inoffensive; for this time, I swear to you, we shall act like powerful men who know their enemies.
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