#884.  Boasting. —­ N. boasting &c. v.; boast, vaunt, crake|; pretense,
pretensions; puff, puffery; flourish, fanfaronade[obs3]; gasconade; blague[obs3], bluff, gas*; highfalutin, highfaluting[obs3]; hot air, spread-eagleism [obs3][U.  S.]; brag, braggardism[obs3]; bravado, bunkum, buncombe; jactitation[obs3], jactancy[obs3]; bounce; venditation|, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology|, heroics; Chauvinism; exaggeration &c. 549.
     vanity &c. 880; vox et praeterea nihil[Lat]; much cry and little wool,
brutum fulmen[Lat].
     exultation; gloriation|, glorification; flourish of trumpets; triumph
&c. 883.
     boaster; braggart, braggadocio; Gascon[Fr], fanfaron[obs3], pretender,
soi-disant[Fr]; blower [U.  S.], bluffer, Foxy Quiller[obs3]; blusterer &c. 887; charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter; puppy &c. (fop) 854. 
     V. boast, make a boast of, brag, vaunt, Puff, show off, flourish,
crake|, crack, trumpet, strut, swagger, vapor; blague[obs3], blow, four-flush *, bluff.
     exult, crow, crow over, neigh, chuckle, triumph; throw up one’s cap;
talk big, se faire valoir[Fr], faire claquer son fouet[obs3][Fr], take merit to oneself, make a merit of, sing Io triumphe[obs3], holloa before one is out of the wood[obs3]. 
     Adj. boasting &c. v.; magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted,
gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant[Fr]; vainglorious &c. (conceited) 880; highfalutin, highfaluting[obs3]; spread-eagle [U.  S.*].
     elate, elated; jubilant, triumphant, exultant; in high feather;
flushed, flushed with victory; cock-a-hoop; on stilts. vaunted &c. v. 
     Adv. vauntingly &c. adj. 
     Phr. “let the galled jade wince” [Hamlet]; facta non verba[Lat].

—­ p. 305 —­

     #885. [Undue assumption of superiority.] Insolence. —­ N. insolence;
haughtiness &c. adj.; arrogance, airs; overbearance[obs3]; domineering &c. v.; tyranny &c. 739.
     impertinence; sauciness &c. adj.; flippancy, dicacity|, petulance,
procacity[obs3], bluster; swagger, swaggering &c. v.; bounce; terrorism.
     assumption, presumption; beggar on horseback; usurpation.
     impudence, assurance, audacity, hardihood, front, face, brass;
shamelessness &c. adj.; effrontery, hardened front, face of brass.
     assumption of infallibility.
     saucebox &c. (blusterer) 887[obs3]. 
     V. be insolent &c. adj.; bluster, vapor, swagger, swell, give oneself
airs, snap one’s fingers, kick up a dust; swear &c. (affirm) 535; rap out oaths; roister. arrogate; assume, presume; make bold, make free; take a liberty, give an inch and take an ell.
     domineer, bully, dictate, hector; lord it over; traiter de haut en
bas[Fr], regarder de haut en bas[Fr]; exact; snub, huff., beard, fly in the face of; put to the blush; bear down, beat down; browbeat, intimidate; trample down, tread down, trample under foot; dragoon, ride