Roget's Thesaurus

#884. Boasting

Nouns

boasting etc. v.; boast, vaunt, crake; pretense, pretensions; puff, puffery; flourish, fanfaronade; gasconade; blague, bluff, gas [Slang]; highfalutin, highfaluting; hot air, spread-eagleism [U.S.]; brag, braggardism; bravado, bunkum, buncombe; jactitation, jactancy; bounce; venditation, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology, heroics; Chauvinism; exaggeration etc. 549. vanity etc. 880; vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.]; much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen [Lat.]. exultation; gloriation, glorification; flourish of trumpets; triumph etc. 883. boaster; braggart, braggadocio; Gascon [Fr.], fanfaron, pretender, soi-disant [Fr.]; blower [U.S.], bluffer, Foxy Quiller; blusterer etc. 887; charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter; puppy etc. (fop) 854.

Verbs

boast, make a boast of, brag, vaunt, Puff, show off, flourish, crake, crack, trumpet, strut, swagger, vapor; blague, blow, four-flush [Slang], bluff. exult, crow, crow over, neigh, chuckle, triumph; throw up one's cap; talk big, se faire valoir [Fr.], faire claquer son fouet [Fr.], take merit to oneself, make a merit of, sing Io triumphe, holloa before one is out of the wood.

Adjectives

boasting etc. v.; magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant [Fr.]; vainglorious etc. (conceited) 880; highfalutin, highfaluting; spread-eagle [U.S.]. elate, elated; jubilant, triumphant, exultant; in high feather; flushed, flushed with victory; cock-a-hoop; on stilts. vaunted etc. v..

Adverbs

vauntingly etc. adj..

Phrases

let the galled jade wince [Hamlet]; facta non verba [Lat.].