N. animal, animal kingdom, fauna, brute creation, beast, brute, creature, critter, wight, created being, creeping thing, living thing, dumb animal, dumb creature, zoophyte, mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, crustacean, shellfish, mollusk, worm, insect, arthropod, microbe, microbe, animalcule, alligator, crocodile, saurian, dinosaur, snake, serpent, viper, eft, asp, aspick, frog, toad, trout, bass, tuna, muskelunge, sailfish, sardine, mackerel, ant, mosquito, bee, honeybee, tardigrade, spider, biped, quadruped, flocks and herds, live stock, domestic animals, wild animals, game, ferae naturae, beasts of the field, fowls of the air, denizens of the sea, black game, black grouse, blackcock, duck, grouse, plover, rail, snipe, horse, cattle, kine, ox, bull, bullock, cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn, sheep, lamb, lambkin, ewe, ram, tup, pig, swine, boar, hog, sow, steer, stot, tag, teg, bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat, dog, hound, pup, puppy, whelp, cur, mongrel, house dog, watch dog, sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dog, mastiff, blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer hound, fox hound, otter hound, harrier, beagle, spaniel, pointer, setter, retriever, newfoundland, water dog, water spaniel, pug, poodle, turnspit, terrier, fox terrier, skye terrier, dandie dinmont, collie, feline, puss, pussy, grimalkin, gib cat, tom cat, fox, reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart, buck, doe, roe, caribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox, sambar, bird, poultry, fowl, cock, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet, rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl, feathered tribes, feathered songster, singing bird, dicky bird, canary, warbler, finch, aberdevine, cushat, cygnet, ringdove, siskin, swan, wood pigeon, vermin, varmint, pest

Adj. animal, zoological equine, bovine, vaccine, canine, feline, fishy, piscatory, piscatorial, molluscous, vermicular, gallinaceous, rasorial, solidungulate, soliped

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

Adv. vauntingly

Phr. "let the galled jade wince", facta non verba

N. blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, roisterer, brawler, fanfaron, braggart, bully, terrorist, rough, bulldozer, hoodlum, hooligan*, larrikin, roarer*, mohock, mohawk, drawcansir, swashbuckler, captain bobadil, sir lucius o'trigger, thraso, pistol, parolles, bombastes furioso, hector, chrononhotonthologos, jingo, desperado, dare-devil, fire eater, fury, &c. (violent person) 173, rowdy, slang-whanger*, tough, puppy, prig, sir oracle, dogmatist, doctrinaire, jack- in-office, saucebox, malapert, jackanapes, minx, bantam-cock, 1, social affections