boastful

English

Alternative forms

• boastfull (archaic)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• 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

Derived terms

• boastfully
• boastfulness
• overboastful
• unboastful

 

Translations

tending to boast or brag

• Azerbaijani: lovğa (az)
• Bulgarian: самохвален (bg) (samohvalen)
• Catalan: vanagloriós
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自誇的 / 自夸的 (zh) (zìkuā de)

• Finnish: leuhka (fi), öykkärimäinen (fi)
• French: vantard (fr), fanfaron (fr)
• Galician: borreante, fachendoso (gl)
• German: prahlerisch (de), stolz (de) (proud)
• Hungarian: dicsekvő (hu), hencegő (hu), kérkedő (hu)
• Irish: mórfhoclach, mórtasach
• Japanese: 自慢する (ja) (じまんする, jiman suru), 自慢に満ちた (ja) (じまんにみちた, jiman ni michita)
• Latin: iactans
• Latvian: lielīgs
• Macedonian: фалба́џиски (falbádžiski)
• Maori: pākiwaha
• Mongolian: бардам (mn) (bardam)
• Plautdietsch: grootfrätich, puchsch
• Portuguese: orgulhoso (pt)
• Russian: хвастли́вый (ru) (xvastlívyj), го́рдый (ru) (górdyj) (proud)
• Scottish Gaelic: bragail
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хвалисав, самохвалисав

  Roman: hvalisav (sh), samohvalisav

• Spanish: jactancioso (es), fachendoso (colloquial), echón (es) (Latin America), jechón (Puerto Rico), comemierda (es) (Puerto Rico), fanfarrón (es)
• Swedish: skrytsam (sv)
• Tagalog: hambog (tl), mahangin, pasikat
• Yakut: бардам (bardam)

See also

• cocky
• proud

 

Anagrams

• boatfuls, boatsful