Definitions for show-off

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Spelling: [shoh-awf, -of]
IPA: /ˈʃoʊˌɔf, -ˌɒf/

Show-Off is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in show-off (-ffhoosw).

Definitions for show-off

noun

  1. a person given to pretentious display.
  2. the act of showing off.

Origin of show-off

First recorded in 1770-80; noun use of verb phrase show off

Examples for show-off

Well, he'll see then that this kind of thing was all show-off, and bluff, won't he?

She graduates and comes home and there are a lot of "doings" which she attends, then comes the show-off which is called a debut.

Many a man builds a grand house for a show-off, when he has verra little to support it.

Once or twice, when I've paid calls with mamma, they were so fussy and show-off.

What a prancing, show-off, matinée fool you've made me look!

So Max, with a dash of "show-off" in his disposition, laughed at Yolanda's fears and answered that he was in no danger.

Even his theater-buff costars thought he was “right on the money” and “absolutely not a show-off,” despite his celebrity status.

I do not belittle it, since from this spirit of "show-off" arises one great good--respect for the opinion of our fellow-man.

Without that spirit of "show-off," what would induce our knights to meet in glorious tournaments?

Does he then hang out a profession that is not true to the kernel of things, but only a show-off for impression's sake?

Word Value for show-off
Scrable

10

Words with friends

9

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