N. boasting,
boast,
vaunt, crake|, pretense, pretensions,
puff,
puffery,
flourish,
fanfaronade,
gasconade,
blague,
bluff, gas*, highfalutin,
highfaluting, hot air, spread-eagleism,
brag,
braggardism,
bravado,
bunkum,
buncombe,
jactitation,
jactancy,
bounce, venditation|,
vaporing,
rodomontade,
bombast, fine talking, tall talk,
magniloquence, teratology|, heroics,
chauvinism,
exaggeration, vanity, vox et praeterea nihil, much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen,
exultation, gloriation|,
glorification, flourish of trumpets, triumph,
boaster,
braggart,
braggadocio,
gascon,
fanfaron, pretender,
soi-disant, blower,
bluffer, foxy quiller,
blusterer,
charlatan, jack-pudding,
trumpeter,
puppy V. boast, make a boast of,
brag,
vaunt,
puff, show off,
flourish, crake|,
crack,
trumpet,
strut,
swagger,
vapor,
blague, blow, four- flush *,
bluff,
exult,
crow, crow over,
neigh,
chuckle, triumph, throw up one's cap, talk big, se faire valoir, faire claquer son fouet, take merit to oneself, make a merit of, sing io triumphe, holloa before one is out of the wood
Adj. boasting,
magniloquent, flaming, thrasonic,
stilted,
gasconading,
braggart,
boastful,
pretentious,
soi-disant,
vainglorious, highfalutin,
highfaluting,
spread-eagle,
elate,
elated,
jubilant,
triumphant,
exultant, in high feather,
flushed, flushed with victory,
cock-a-hoop, on stilts,
vaunted Phr. "let the galled jade wince", facta non verba
N. flattery,
adulation,
gloze,
blandishment,
blandiloquence,
cajolery,
fawning,
wheedling,
captation,
coquetry,
obsequiousness,
sycophancy, flunkeyism, toadeating, tuft-hunting,
snobbishness, incense, honeyed words,
flummery,
bunkum,
buncombe,
blarney,
placebo, butter, soft soap, soft sawder,
rose water, voice of the charmer, mouth honor, lip homage,
euphemism,
unctuousness V. flatter, praise to the skies,
puff,
wheedle,
cajole,
glaver,
coax, fawn upon, faun upon,
humor,
gloze,
soothe,
pet,
coquet, slaver, butter,
jolly,
bespatter,
beslubber,
beplaster,
beslaver, lay it on thick, overpraise,
earwig,
cog,
collogue, truckle to, pander to, pandar to, suck up to, kiss the ass of, pay court to, court, creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of, fool to the top of one's bent, lick the dust, lay the flattering unction to one's soul, gild the pill, make things pleasant, overestimate,
exaggerate Adj. flattering,
adulatory,
mealy-mouthed,
honey-mouthed, honeyed, smooth,
smooth-tongued,
soapy,
oily,
unctuous, blandiloquent,
specious, fine-spoken, fair spoken,
plausible,
servile,
sycophantic,
fulsome, courtierly, courtier-like
