boast🔊

A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.

Something that one brags about.

(squash) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.

To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.

To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.

(obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.

(squash) To play a boast shot.

To possess something special (e.g. as a feature).

(masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.

(sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.