BOASTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does boasting mean? 

• BOASTING (noun)
  The noun BOASTING has 1 sense:

1. speaking of yourself in superlatives

  Familiarity information: BOASTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOASTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Speaking of yourself in superlatives

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

boast; boasting; jactitation; self-praise

Hypernyms ("boasting" is a kind of...):

speech act (the use of language to perform some act)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "boasting"):

brag; bragging; crow; crowing; gasconade; line-shooting; vaporing (an instance of boastful talk)

bluster; braggadocio; rhodomontade; rodomontade (vain and empty boasting)

vaunt (extravagant self-praise)

self-assertion (the act of putting forth your own opinions in a boastful or inconsiderate manner that implies you feel superior to others)

 Context examples 

After a few minutes' reflection, however, she continued, I do remember his boasting one day, at Netherfield, of the implacability of his resentments, of his having an unforgiving temper.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Well now, I tell you, I'm not a boasting man, and you seen yourself how easy I keep company, but when I was quartermaster, LAMBS wasn't the word for Flint's old buccaneers.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“We have had enough bobance and boasting,” said Hordle John, rising and throwing off his doublet.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is not boasting.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You know me too well to think that I am boasting when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of understanding.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He could only obtain a promise of their calling at the Park within a day or two, and then left them in amazement at their indifference, to walk home and boast anew of their attractions to the Miss Steeles, as he had been already boasting of the Miss Steeles to them.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She might not wonder, but she must sigh that her father should feel no degradation in his change, should see nothing to regret in the duties and dignity of the resident landholder, should find so much to be vain of in the littlenesses of a town; and she must sigh, and smile, and wonder too, as Elizabeth threw open the folding-doors and walked with exultation from one drawing-room to the other, boasting of their space; at the possibility of that woman, who had been mistress of Kellynch Hall, finding extent to be proud of between two walls, perhaps thirty feet asunder.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)