boasting

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈboʊstɪŋ/

boasting

1. present participle and gerund of boast

boasting (plural boastings)

1. The making of boasts.
   • 1849, Elizabeth Wilson, A Scriptural View of Woman's Rights and Duties, page 367:

     Solomon says, "Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." Some, as soon as their vain boastings were uttered, were made monuments of divine justice.

• boatings, bostangi