Word Meanings - VAPORING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Talking idly; boasting; vaunting. -- Va"por*ing*ly, adv.
Related words: (words related to VAPORING)
- 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.