0 present participle of boast
1 to speak too proudly or happily about what you have done or what you own:
2 to have or own something to be proud of:
Britain's best-known ticket tout once boasted that he could get you tickets for anything.
He's always boasting. He's such a big-head!
After boasting that his company could outperform the industry's best, he's been forced to eat humble pie.
He was a naturally shy man, who never boasted about his achievements.
Here the boasting, usually a confrontational speech act, has the effect of creating homosociality and is thus socially indirect.
Not all readers found it necessary to distinguish between a work of history and a work boasting the narrative power of an entertaining novel.
The plural system, in contrast, is vastly over-represented by regular forms, boasting only a handful of irregular alternatives to the ' add a regular suffix ' pattern.
