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21talk big — {v.}, {informal} To talk boastfully; brag. * /He talks big about his pitching, but he hasn t won a game./ …
22Boastingly — Boast ing*ly, adv. Boastfully; with boasting. He boastingly tells you. Burke. [1913 Webster] …
23Brag — Brag, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bragged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bragging}.] [OE. braggen to resound, blow, boast (cf. F. braguer to lead a merry life, flaunt, boast, OF. brague merriment), from Icel. braka to creak, brak noise, fr. the same root as E.… …
24Brag — Brag, adv. Proudly; boastfully. [Obs.] Fuller. [1913 Webster] …
25Bragged — Brag Brag, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bragged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bragging}.] [OE. braggen to resound, blow, boast (cf. F. braguer to lead a merry life, flaunt, boast, OF. brague merriment), from Icel. braka to creak, brak noise, fr. the same root as E …
26Bragging — Brag Brag, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bragged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bragging}.] [OE. braggen to resound, blow, boast (cf. F. braguer to lead a merry life, flaunt, boast, OF. brague merriment), from Icel. braka to creak, brak noise, fr. the same root as E …
27Crake — (kr[=a]k), v. t. & i. [See {Crack}.] 1. To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake. [1913 Webster] 2. To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Each man may crake of that which was his own. Mir. for Mag. [1913 …
28Proudly — Proud ly, adv. In a proud manner; with lofty airs or mien; haughtily; arrogantly; boastfully. [1913 Webster] Proudly he marches on, and void of fear. Addison. [1913 Webster] …
29Quack — Quack, n. 1. The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. [Cf. {Quacksalver}.] A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner. [1913 Webster] 3. Hence, one… …
30blow smoke — phrasal to speak idly, misleadingly, or boastfully …