show off

See also: showoff and show-off

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English

Verb

to show off (third-person singular simple present shows off, present participle showing off, simple past showed off, past participle shown off or showed off)

1. (transitive, idiomatic) To exhibit the best attributes of something.

   Grocery stores show off their produce by placing the most attractive specimens in front.

2. (transitive and intransitive, idiomatic) To attract attention to for the purpose of bragging or personal exhibitionism; to demonstrate a skill, talent or property for the purpose of bragging or personal exhibitionism.

   She loves to show off her driving prowess.

   She loves to show off when she gets behind the wheel of a car.

   • 2014 June 29, Adam Sherwin, “UK cinemas ban Google glasses over piracy risk”, in The Independent‎^[1]:

     If you've just acquired a Google Glass headset for £1,000, don't show it off at the movies. UK cinemas are to ban the headsets over fears that the gadgets can be used to make pirate copies of Hollywood blockbusters.

Translations

to exhibit, to demonstrate something for the purpose of bragging

• Arabic: تَفاخَر‎‎ (tafākhar), تَباهى‎‎ (tanāha)

  Moroccan Arabic: بغى يبان‎‎ (bḡa iban)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (positive) 炫耀 (zh) (xuànyào), (negative) 賣弄 (zh), 卖弄 (zh) (màinong), (show off an object, person, etc) 夸耀 (zh), 夸耀 (zh) (kuāyào)

• Czech: předvádět se
• Dutch: zich aanstellen, pronken met
• Finnish: näyttää, brassailla (slang); (~ one's intelligence) päteä, pröystäillä, mahtailla (fi), leveillä (fi), ylpeillä, kehuskella (fi), briljeerata
• French: crâner (fr), faire le malin (fr), frimer (fr)
• Georgian: მატრაკვეცა (maṭraḳveca), მეტიჩარა (meṭičara)
• German: angeben (de), aufschneiden (de), sich wichtigmachen, renommieren (de), sich aufblasen, wichtigtun
• Italian: fare bella mostra, mettere in mostra, mettersi in mostra
• Japanese: 見えをはる (みえをはる, mie o haru), 見せようとする (みせようとする, miseyō to suru)

• Macedonian: фали се (fáli se)
• Maori: whakameremere, whakametometo, whakamenomeno
• Polish: popisywać się
• Portuguese: mostrar-se, jactar-se
• Romanian: se făli (ro), se lăuda (ro)
• Russian: рисова́ться (ru) (risovátʹsja), красова́ться (ru) (krasovátʹsja), (slang) выде́лываться (ru) (vydélyvatʹsja), (slang) выпе́ндриваться (ru) (vypéndrivatʹsja), (slang) выёживаться (ru) (vyjóživatʹsja), (vulgar) выёбываться (ru) (vyjóbyvatʹsja)
• Spanish: chulear (es), lucir (es), lucirse (es), hacer alarde
• Turkish: hava atmak (tr)
• Ukrainian: викаблу́чуватися impf (vykablúčuvatysja), викабе́люватися (vykabéljuvatysja) (informal), випе́ндрюватися (vypéndrjuvatysja) (informal), випиндю́чуватися (vypyndjúčuvatysja) (slang), вийо́буватися impf (vyjóbuvatysja) (vulgar)
• Vietnamese: khoe (vi)
• Walloon: fé di s' yane (wa), fé di s' gueuye (wa) (unpolite), fé di s' nez (wa), fé di s' rinkinkin, fé d' ses imbaras

Noun

show off (plural show offs)

1. Alternative form of show-off

Related terms

• show up