pretensions; puff, puffery; flourish, fanfaronade†; gasconade; blague†,
bluff, gas [Slang]; highfalutin, highfaluting†; hot air, spread-eagleism
[U.S.]; brag, braggardism†; bravado, bunkum, buncombe; jactitation†,
jactancy†; 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†, pretender,
soi-disant [Fr.]; blower [U.S.], bluffer, Foxy Quiller†; 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†, blow, four-flush
[Slang], bluff.
exult, crow, crow over, neigh, chuckle, triumph; throw up one's
cap; talk big, se faire valoir [Fr.], faire claquer son fouet [Fr.],
take merit to oneself, make a merit of, sing Io triumphe†, holloa before
one is out of the wood†.
Adj. boasting &c v.; magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted,
gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant [Fr.];
vainglorious &c (conceited) 880; highfalutin, highfaluting†; 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.].