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Word Meanings - VAPORING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Talking idly; boasting; vaunting. -- Va"por*ing*ly, adv.

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  • VAUNT
    To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag. Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. Gov. of Tongue.
  • BOASTFUL
    Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.
  • VAUNTER
    One who vaunts; a boaster.
  • BOASTING
    The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display. When boasting ends, then dignity begins. Young.
  • TALK
    OD. tolken to interpret, MHG. tolkan to interpret, to tell, to speak indistinctly, Dan. tolke to interpret, Sw. tolka, Icel. t to interpret, t an interpreter, Lith. tulkas an interpreter, tulkanti, tulkoti, to interpret, Russ. tolkovate
  • TALKATIVE
    Given to much talking. Syn. -- Garrulous; loquacious. See Garrulous. -- Talk"a*tive*ly, adv. -- Talk"a*tive*ness, n.
  • VAUNTFUL
    Given to vaunting or boasting; vainly ostentatious; boastful; vainglorious.
  • BOASTANCE
    Boasting. Chaucer.
  • BOASTIVE
    Presumptuous.
  • VAUNT-COURIER
    See SHAK
  • TALKER
    1. One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist. There probably were never four talkers more admirable in four different ways than Johnson, Burke, Beauclerk, and Garrick. Macaulay.
  • BOAST
    bausen, bauschen, to swell, pusten, Dan. puste, Sw. pusta, to blow, Sw. pösa to swell; or W. bostio to boast, bost boast, Gael. bosd. But 1. To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of
  • BOASTINGLY
    Boastfully; with boasting. "He boastingly tells you." Burke.
  • TALKING
    1. That talks; able to utter words; as, a talking parrot. 2. Given to talk; loquacious. The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made. Goldsmith.
  • VAUNTINGLY
    In a vaunting manner.
  • BOASTER
    One who boasts; a braggart.
  • BOASTLESS
    Without boasting or ostentation.
  • STALKY
    Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk. At the top bears a great stalky head. Mortimer.
  • UNTALKED
    Not talked; not mentioned; -- often with of. Shak.
  • AVAUNTOUR
    A boaster. Chaucer.
  • STALK-EYED
    Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; -- opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans. Stalked- eyed crustaceans. See Podophthalmia.
  • STALKLESS
    Having no stalk.
  • STALKER
    1. One who stalks. 2. A kind of fishing net.
  • INTERTALK
    To converse. Carew.
  • DEERSTALKER
    One who practices deerstalking.
  • CORNSTALK
    A stalk of Indian corn.
  • ANTALKALI; ANTALKALINE
    Anything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system. Hoopplw.
  • EYESTALK
    One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip.
  • OVERTALK
    To talk to excess. Milton.

 

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