boast
noun/bəʊst/
/bəʊst/
(often disapproving)- boast (that…) something that a person talks about in a very proud way, often to seem more important or clever
- Despite his boasts that his children were brilliant, neither of them went to college.
- It was her proud boast that she had never missed a day's work because of illness.
- Her claim that she could beat us all was clearly no idle/empty boast (= it was true).
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- proud
- empty
- idle
- …
- make
- boast about
- boast of
Word OriginMiddle English (as a noun): of unknown origin.
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