boast

Meaning of boast

noun
  1. A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.
  2. Something that one brags about.
    It was his regular boast that he could eat two full English breakfasts in one sitting.
  3. A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
verb
  1. To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
  2. To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
  3. To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
  4. To play a boast shot.
  5. To possess something special.
    His family boasted a famous name.
verb
  1. To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
  2. (sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.

Information about boast

  • The plural form of boast is: boasts.
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Hyphenation of boast

boast

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • boast is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

boast synonyms

Meaning boasting:

boasting, jactitation

Meaning tout:

tout, swash, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade

Meaning sport:

sport, feature

Translation of boast

Anagrams of boast

basto, boats, botas, sabot

Words that rhyme with boast

oast, outboast, overboast, preboast, reboast, Palmcoast, Pancoast, accoast, coast, discoast, recoast, seacoast, upcoast, hoast, loast, aroast, overroast, ribroast, roast, underroast, unroast, Milquetoast, milktoast, milquetoast, retoast, toast

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