Definition of boast

"boast" in the noun sense

1. boast, boasting, self-praise, jactitation

speaking of yourself in superlatives

"boast" in the verb sense

1. boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade

show off

2. sport, feature, boast

wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner

"she was sporting a new hat"

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Quotations for boast

Great boast, small roast. [ Proverb ]

Brave men do not boast nor bluster,
Deeds, not words, speak for such. [ Rivarol ]

Hearts only thrive on varied good;
And he who gathers from a host
Of friendly hearts his daily food,
Is the best friend that we can boast. [ Holland ]

No religion but can boast of its martyrs. [ Proverb ]

But, O vain boast! Who can control his fate? [ William Shakespeare ]

I have no urns, no dusty monuments;
No broken images of ancestors,
Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales
Of long descents, to boast false honors from. [ Ben Jonson ]

When love once pleads admission to our hearts,
In spite of all the virtue we can boast,
The woman that deliberates is lost. [ Addison ]

A daring pilot in extremity;
Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high
He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit,
Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide; [ Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel ]

The fall of waters and the song of birds.
And hills that echo to the distant herds.
Are luxuries excelling all the glare
The world can boast, and her chief favorites share. [ Cowper ]

Every one speaks well of his heart, but no one dares boast of his wit. [ La Roche ]

Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth. [ Virgil ]

Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. [ Bible ]

Some women boast of having never accorded anything; perhaps it is because they have never been asked anything.

To profess one thing and to do another occurs very often, especially with those who continually boast of their virtue. [ T. Gautier ]

Since every man that lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal minds what happens let us bear. [ Dryden ]

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like a potato, - the only good belonging to him is underground. [ Sir Thomas Overbury ]

What a cruel jest it would be to condemn those who continually boast of their virtues, to the strict practice of what they profess! [ De Finod ]

The most accomplished way of using books at present is to serve them as some do lords, learn their titles, and then boast of their acquaintance. [ Swift ]

You who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your pedigree, or are proud of your wealth. [ Thackeray ]

There is among men such intense affectation that they often boast of defects which they have not, more willingly than of qualities which they have. [ George Sand ]

Oh, but books are such safe company! They keep your secrets well; they never boast that they made your eyes glisten, or your cheek flush, or your heart throb. [ Mrs. S. P. Parton ]

High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of. [ Bishop Warburton ]

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of our Freethinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned. [ Carlyle ]

How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gave interest to the past; and each age is a volume thrown aside and forgotten. [ Washington Irving ]

Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in defense of their idolatry - the power of their idol. It is true that, like other idols, it can neither move, see, hear, feel, nor understand; but, unlike other idols, it has often communicated all these powers to those who had them not, and annihilated them in those who had. This idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite. [ Colton ]

boast in Scrabble®

The word boast is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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boast in Words With Friends™

The word boast is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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Words within the letters of boast

2 letter words in boast (7 words)

3 letter words in boast (8 words)

4 letter words in boast (7 words)

5 letter words in boast (Anagrams) (2 words)

Words containing the sequence boast

Words that end with boast (3 words)

Word Growth involving boast

Shorter words in boast

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boa boas

Longer words containing boast

boasted outboasted

boasted reboasted

boaster boasters

boastful boastfully

boastful boastfulness

boastful overboastful

boasting outboasting

boasting reboasting

boastless

boasts outboasts

boasts reboasts

outboast outboasted

outboast outboasting

outboast outboasts

reboast reboasted

reboast reboasting

reboast reboasts