boast

English

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Etymology 1

From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#BOASTCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#BOAST bosten, from bost (“boast, glory, noise, arrogance, presumption, pride, vanity”), probably of North GermanicCategory:English terms derived from North Germanic languages#BOAST origin, ultimately from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#BOAST *bausuz (“inflated, swollen, puffed up, proud, arrogant, bad”).

Cognate with Scots bost, boist (“to threaten, brag, boast”), Anglo-Norman bost (“ostentation”) (from Germanic). Related to Norwegian baus (“proud, bold, daring”), dialectal German baustern (“to swell”), German böse (“evil, bad, angry”), Dutch boos (“evil, wicked, angry”), West Frisian boas (“bad, wicked, angry, shrewd, clever”). Compare also dialectal Norwegian bausta, busta (“to rush onward, make a noise”). Possible doublet of boostCategory:English doublets#BOAST.

Compare typologically puffy, Russian напы́щенный (napýščennyj), наду́тый (nadútyj).

Noun

boast (plural boasts)Category:English lemmas#BOASTCategory:English nouns#BOASTCategory:English countable nouns#BOASTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BOASTCategory:Pages with entries#BOASTCategory:Pages with 1 entry#BOAST

  1. A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.
  2. Something that one brags about.
    It was his regular boast that he could eat two full English breakfasts in one sitting.Category:English terms with usage examples#BOAST
  3. (squashCategory:en:Squash#BOAST) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
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Verb

boast (third-person singular simple present boasts, present participle boasting, simple past and past participle boasted)Category:English lemmas#BOASTCategory:English verbs#BOASTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BOASTCategory:Pages with entries#BOASTCategory:Pages with 1 entry#BOAST

  1. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#BOAST) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
  2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#BOAST) (used with "about" or "of") To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
  3. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#BOAST) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
  4. (squashCategory:en:Squash#BOAST) To play a boast shot.
  5. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#BOAST) To possess (a special and desirable quality).
    The hotel boasts one of the best views of the sea.Category:English terms with usage examples#BOAST
    His family boasted a famous name.Category:English terms with usage examples#BOAST
    • 1983, Burton Pasternak, “Lungtu Before the Japanese”, in Guests in the Dragon : Social Demography of a Chinese district, 1895-1946‎, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 20:
      The Meinung, Kaoshu, Shalin, and Liukuei Hakka together comprised the army's "Right Unit," and it alone boasted some 3,200 fighting men.
      Category:English terms with quotations#BOAST
    • 2018 June 22, Paul Mozur, “Inside a Heist of American Chip Designs, as China Bids for Tech Power”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 June 2018, Technology‎:
      Jinhua and others are spending big to get there. In Jinjiang, a city in Fujian Province once known as a shoe-manufacturing center, Jinhua’s new factory is almost finished. Rising five stories and stretching several football fields long, the structure boasts 100,000 square feet of new office space.
      Category:English terms with quotations#BOAST
    • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67:
      After dropping off travellers at Foregate Street, my train terminates at Shrub Hill - a station which boasts one of the best selection [sic] of semaphore signals left in the country.
      Category:English terms with quotations#BOAST
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Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Category:Requests for etymologies in English entries#BOAST

Verb

boast (third-person singular simple present boasts, present participle boasting, simple past and past participle boasted)Category:English lemmas#BOASTCategory:English verbs#BOASTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BOASTCategory:Pages with entries#BOASTCategory:Pages with 1 entry#BOAST

  1. (masonryCategory:en:Masonry#BOAST) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.[1]
  2. (sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
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References

  1. ↑ 1849-1850, John Weale, Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms used in Architecture, Building, and Engineering

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