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
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“A man, too, who could boast of Dante for a genealogist, and could reckon back to the Divina Comedia.”
Now, was there ever a wolf that could boast of a man’s cub among her children?”
They boast and chatter and pretend that they are a great people about to do great affairs in the jungle, but the falling of a nut turns their minds to laughter and all is forgotten.
“I wouldn’t be likely to boast of it if he did, the horrid creature!
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