boast

Plural: boasts

Noun

speaking of yourself in superlatives
A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.
Something that one brags about.
A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.

Verb

Verb Forms: boasted, boasting, boasts

To talk with excessive pride and self-satisfaction about one's achievements.
show off
wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner
To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
(used with "about" or "of") To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
To play a boast shot.
To possess (a special and desirable quality).
To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.

Examples

He liked to BOAST about his Scrabble victory, but forgot the time he scored zero points.
His family boasted a famous name.
It was his regular boast that he could eat two full English breakfasts in one sitting.
The hotel boasts one of the best views of the sea.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English bosten, from bost (“boast, glory, noise, arrogance, presumption, pride, vanity”), probably of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bausuz (“inflated, swollen, puffed up, proud, arrogant, bad”).
Cognate with Scots bost, boist (“to threaten, brag, boast”), Anglo-Norman bost (“ostentation”) (from Germanic). Related to Norwegian baus (“proud, bold, daring”), dialectal German baustern (“to swell”), German böse (“evil, bad, angry”), Dutch boos (“evil, wicked, angry”), West Frisian boas (“bad, wicked, angry, shrewd, clever”). Compare also dialectal Norwegian bausta, busta (“to rush onward, make a noise”). Possible doublet of boost.

Synonyms

blow, bluster, boasting, brag, feature, gas, gasconade, jactitation, self-praise, shoot a line, sport, swash, tout, vaunt, crow

Antonyms

depreciate

Scrabble Score: 7

boast: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
boast: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
boast: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

boast: valid Words With Friends Word