boast
bohst
- n speaking of yourself in superlatives
- v show off
- v wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner
- So they planned to make every previous incident look podunk, and they videotaped their boast so the world would know what they had set out to do.
- But it manufactures only about 200 of the thousand or so Indian feature films; a half-dozen regions boast production sites larger than most of the worlds national cinemas.
- The French High Command, normally taciturn, last week authorized an extended commentary which contained both a major boast and a major threat.