Definitions for boasts

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boasts boast

Spelling: [bohst]

IPA: /boʊst/

Boasts is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 107 anagrams from letters in boasts (abosst).

Definitions for boasts

noun

1. a thing boasted of; a cause for pride:
2. exaggerated or objectionable speech; bragging:

verb (used with object)

1. to speak of with excessive pride or vanity:
2. to be proud in the possession of:
3. to dress or shape (stone) roughly.

verb (used without object)

1. to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
2. to speak with pride (often followed by of):

Origin of boasts

1250-1300; Middle English bost (noun), bosten (v.), of uncertain origin

Examples for boasts

The Riveters boast capos (chant leaders), tifos (giant club-support banners), drums, brass, and flags.

Celebrities bang on about loving their gay fans, and boast of being camp.

Beer-swilling Britain and Spain now boast impressive varietals while America is challenging France with how much wine is consumed.

He should never have had to boast of the slaughter of our men.

Instead, she was inclined to boast over her ability to bamboozle men at her will.

The Great Lakes states, for example, boast the largest concentration of engineering jobs (more than 318,000) of any major region.

McConnell did what he did in 2005, and he was foolish enough to boast about it in public less than two weeks before an election.

We wasn't none of us much to boast of; but Dick, he went too fur.

You have acknowledged, that he has nothing to boast of from them.

The man, this Solmes, you may suppose, has no reason to boast of his progress with me.