boastful

English

From Middle English bostful, equivalent to boast +‎ -ful.

boastful (comparative more boastful, superlative most boastful)

Tending to boast or brag.
He wrote a boastful autobiography, recording all his great deeds.
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  It makes one's blood boil, yet heart tremble, to think that we Englishmen and our American descendants, with their boastful cry of liberty, have been and are so guilty

tending to boast or brag

Azerbaijani: lovğa (az)
Bulgarian: самохвален (bg) (samohvalen)
Catalan: vanagloriós
Chinese:
Mandarin: 自誇的／自夸的 (zh) (zìkuā de)
Finnish: leuhka, öykkärimäinen (fi)
French: vantard (fr), fanfaron (fr)
Galician: borreante, fachendoso (gl)
German: prahlerisch (de), stolz (de) (proud)
Hungarian: dicsekvő (hu), hencegő (hu), kérkedő (hu)
Irish: mórfhoclach, mórtasach
Japanese: 自慢する (ja) (じまんする, jiman suru), 自慢に満ちた (ja) (じまんにみちた, jiman ni michita)
Latin: iactans
Latvian: lielīgs
Macedonian: фалба́џиски (falbádžiski)
Maori: pākiwaha
Mongolian: бардам (mn) (bardam)
Plautdietsch: grootfrätich, puchsch
Portuguese: orgulhoso (pt)
Russian: хвастли́вый (ru) (xvastlívyj), го́рдый (ru) (górdyj) (proud)
Scottish Gaelic: bragail
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: хвалисав, самохвалисав

Roman: hvalisav (sh), samohvalisav
Spanish: jactancioso (es), fachendoso (colloquial)
Swedish: skrytsam (sv)
Tagalog: hambog (tl), mahangin, pasikat
Yakut: бардам (bardam)

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