Boast

Morpheme

Boast

Type

free base

Denotation

brag, glory, arrogance, presumption, pride, vanity

Etymology

Middle English bosten, from bost; Anglo-Norman bost

Evidence

boast, boasted, boaster, boastful, boastfully, boasting, boastingly, boastive, boastless, boastly, boasts, boastsome, boastworthy, outboast, overboast, unboasted, unboasting