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Boasting or
bragging is
speaking with
excessive pride and self-satisfaction
about one's achievements, possessions, or abilities.
Boasting occurs when someone...
- The
Boaster is a 50-minute, 1926
American silent comedy film
directed by Duke
Worne and
starring Ashton Dearholt,
Gloria Grey and
Joseph W. Girard. Angered...
- and nek
verbatim for 'fat' + 'neck' and
figuratively means an
arrogant boaster. Jean-Luc
Couchard - Jean-Claude
Dominique Pinon - Stef
Marion Cotillard...
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usually succeeded by
bringing down his
braggart opponent (the alazṓn "
boaster") by
understating his own abilities. The
eiron lends his name to the related...
- characters: the
buffoon (bômolochus), the
ironist (eirōn), and the
imposter or
boaster (alazṓn). All
three are
central to Aristophanes' Old Comedy. By the time...
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Moods of
Belafonte (1962)
Streets I Have
Walked (1963) Ballads,
Blues and
Boasters (1964) In My
Quiet Room (1966)
Calypso in Br**** (1966)
Belafonte on Campus...
- much older. The term
originated in the late 16th
century and
denotes a
boaster. It is from Braggadocchio, the name of a
braggart in Spenser's The Faerie...
- (ja:饅頭こわい,
Manjuu kowai, Manjū are scary) – a
group of boys try to
scare off a
boaster Meguro no
Sanma (ja:目黒のさんま,
Meguro no sanma,
Pacific saury of Meguro) –...
- is no vain
boast to say so, for even my
enemies will
admit that I am no
boaster, that
there does not
exist in
Canada a man who has
given more of his time...
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Logue came
across Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha: Then Iagoo, the
great boaster, He the
marvellous story-teller, He the
traveller and the talker, He the...
