Definitions for vaunting

vaunting vaunt·ing

Spelling: [vawn-ting, vahn-]
IPA: /ˈvɔn tɪŋ, ˈvɑn-/

Vaunting is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 165 anagrams from letters in vaunting (aginntuv).

Definitions for vaunting

noun

  1. a boastful action or utterance.

adjective

  1. having a boastfully proud disposition:
  2. marked by boastful pride:

verb (used with object)

  1. to speak vaingloriously of; boast of:

verb (used without object)

  1. to speak boastfully; brag.

Origin of vaunting

First recorded in 1580-90; vaunt + -ing2

Examples for vaunting

And I who fought so bravely for the glory And might which now the vaunting tyrants boast!

The savage looked around him with a vaunting air as he uttered these words.

His vaunting proclamations were headed: In the name of Allah.

Well they ken it where little they love it with its vaunting!

Here their vaunting hopes were destined to meet the first disappointment.

Val did not know that an American is never so happy as when he is vaunting his womenkind.

America is relieved of the need of vaunting herself upon it.

A petit Paris it was called in a vaunting quatrain by some minstrel of yore.

I persuaded you to hope for Lombardy, and without any vaunting of my own patriotism.

Only fancy the Greek vaunting his triumphs or bewailing his defeats in Turkish!'

Word Value for vaunting
Scrable

12

Words with friends

17

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