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Etymology
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From Middle English bostful, equivalent to boast + -ful.
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /ˈbəʊstfʊl/, /ˈbəʊstf(ə)l/
Adjective
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boastful (comparative more boastful, superlative most boastful)
- Tending to boast or brag.
He wrote a boastful autobiography, recording all his great deeds.
1839, Robert FitzRoy, Phillip Parker King, Charles Darwin, Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:It makes one's blood boil, yet heart tremble, to think that we Englishmen and our American descendants, with their boastful cry of liberty, have been and are so guilty
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tending to boast or brag
- Azerbaijani: lovğa (az)
- Bulgarian: самохвален (bg) (samohvalen)
- Catalan: vanagloriós
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 自誇的／自夸的 (zh) (zìkuā de)
- Finnish: leuhka, öykkärimäinen (fi)
- French: vantard (fr), fanfaron (fr)
- Galician: borreante, fachendoso (gl)
- German: prahlerisch (de), stolz (de) (proud)
- Hungarian: dicsekvő (hu), hencegő (hu), kérkedő (hu)
- Irish: mórfhoclach, mórtasach
- Japanese: 自慢する (ja) (じまんする, jiman suru), 自慢に満ちた (ja) (じまんにみちた, jiman ni michita)
- Latin: iactans
- Latvian: lielīgs
- Macedonian: фалба́џиски (falbádžiski)
- Maori: pākiwaha
- Mongolian: бардам (mn) (bardam)
- Plautdietsch: grootfrätich, puchsch
- Portuguese: orgulhoso (pt)
- Russian: хвастли́вый (ru) (xvastlívyj), го́рдый (ru) (górdyj) (proud)
- Scottish Gaelic: bragail
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: хвалисав, самохвалисав
- Roman: hvalisav (sh), samohvalisav
- Spanish: jactancioso (es), fachendoso (colloquial)
- Swedish: skrytsam (sv)
- Tagalog: hambog (tl), mahangin, pasikat
- Yakut: бардам (bardam)
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