boastful

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Etymology

From Middle English bostful, equivalent to boast +‎ -ful.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbəʊstfʊl/, /ˈbəʊstf(ə)l/
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  • Hyphenation: boast‧ful

Adjective

boastful (comparative more boastful, superlative most boastful)

  1. Tending to boast or brag.
    He wrote a boastful autobiography, recording all his great deeds.
    • 1839, Robert FitzRoy, Phillip Parker King, Charles Darwin, Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, [], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, [], →OCLC:
      It makes one's blood boil, yet heart tremble, to think that we Englishmen and our American descendants, with their boastful cry of liberty, have been and are so guilty

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