VAUNT

vaunt

(noun) extravagant self-praise

boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade

(verb) show off

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Verb

vaunt (third-person singular simple present vaunts, present participle vaunting, simple past and past participle vaunted)

(intransitive) To speak boastfully.

(transitive) To speak boastfully about.

(transitive) To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.

Synonyms

• (speak boastfully): boast, brag

Noun

vaunt (plural vaunts)

A boast; an instance of vaunting.

Etymology 2

Noun

vaunt (plural vaunts)

(obsolete) The first part.

Anagrams

• Tuvan

Source: Wiktionary

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Vaunt, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Vaunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Vaunting.] Etym: [F. vanter, LL. vanitare, fr. L. vanus vain. See Vain.]

Definition: To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag. Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. Gov. of Tongue.

Vaunt, v. t.

Definition: To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation. Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. 1 Cor. xiii. 4. My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil. Milton.

Vaunt, n.

Definition: A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity; a boast; a brag. The spirits beneath, whom I seduced With other promises and other vaunts. Milton.

Vaunt, n. Etym: [F. avant before, fore. See Avant, Vanguard.]

Definition: The first part. [Obs.] Shak.

Vaunt, v. t. Etym: [See Avant, Advance.]

Definition: To put forward; to display. [Obs.] "Vaunted spear." Spenser. And what so else his person most may vaunt. Spenser.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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