Word Meanings - VAPORING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Talking idly; boasting; vaunting. -- Va"por*ing*ly, adv.

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• VAUNT
  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.
• BOASTFUL
  Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.
• VAUNTER
  One who vaunts; a boaster.
• BOASTING
  The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display. When boasting ends, then dignity begins. Young.
• TALK
  OD. tolken to interpret, MHG. tolkan to interpret, to tell, to speak indistinctly, Dan. tolke to interpret, Sw. tolka, Icel. t to interpret, t an interpreter, Lith. tulkas an interpreter, tulkanti, tulkoti, to interpret, Russ. tolkovate
• TALKATIVE
  Given to much talking. Syn. -- Garrulous; loquacious. See Garrulous. -- Talk"a*tive*ly, adv. -- Talk"a*tive*ness, n.
• VAUNTFUL
  Given to vaunting or boasting; vainly ostentatious; boastful; vainglorious.
• BOASTANCE
  Boasting. Chaucer.
• BOASTIVE
  Presumptuous.
• VAUNT-COURIER
  See SHAK
• TALKER
  1. One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist. There probably were never four talkers more admirable in four different ways than Johnson, Burke, Beauclerk, and Garrick. Macaulay.
• BOAST
  bausen, bauschen, to swell, pusten, Dan. puste, Sw. pusta, to blow, Sw. pösa to swell; or W. bostio to boast, bost boast, Gael. bosd. But 1. To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of
• BOASTINGLY
  Boastfully; with boasting. "He boastingly tells you." Burke.
• TALKING
  1. That talks; able to utter words; as, a talking parrot. 2. Given to talk; loquacious. The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made. Goldsmith.
• VAUNTINGLY
  In a vaunting manner.
• BOASTER
  One who boasts; a braggart.
• BOASTLESS
  Without boasting or ostentation.
• STALKY
  Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk. At the top bears a great stalky head. Mortimer.
• UNTALKED
  Not talked; not mentioned; -- often with of. Shak.
• AVAUNTOUR
  A boaster. Chaucer.
• STALK-EYED
  Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; -- opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans. Stalked- eyed crustaceans. See Podophthalmia.
• STALKLESS
  Having no stalk.
• STALKER
  1. One who stalks. 2. A kind of fishing net.
• INTERTALK
  To converse. Carew.
• DEERSTALKER
  One who practices deerstalking.
• CORNSTALK
  A stalk of Indian corn.
• ANTALKALI; ANTALKALINE
  Anything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system. Hoopplw.
• EYESTALK
  One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip.
• OVERTALK
  To talk to excess. Milton.