VAUNT, VAUNTING
ADJECTIVES
1712 ► VOCKY → VOGEY → VOGGIE → VOGIE → VOGY proud, elated, very pleased with oneself, vain, vaunting → Sc.
1867 ► VENTOSE pompous, bragging, vaunting
NOUNS
– ADVANCEMENT extolment, lauding; vaunting …1330 obs.
– GAB an idle vaunt; a piece of brag or bravado …1737
– GASCONISM a spirit of boastfulness or vaunting …1807
– KOMPOLOGY boasting or vaunting speech …1854 rare
– ROOSE a boasting, vainglory; a boast, brag, vaunt …c1200 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– VAUNTERY vaunting, boasting; boastful or vainglorious bearing or show …1491 obs. or arch.
– VAUNTERY a boast, a vaunt …1603 obs.
– VAUNTISE a vaunt or boast …c1477 obs.
– VOUST a boast, brag, vaunt …a1500 Sc.
VERBS
– ADVANT to vaunt, to boast …1541 obs.
– VALUE to commend or praise to another; to vaunt …1670 obs.
– VAMP to boast, to brag, to vaunt …1877 Eng. dial.
– VOOST to brag, to boast, to vaunt …1790 Sc. obs.
– VOUST to boast, brag, vaunt …1513 Sc.
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