vaunt

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   extravagant self-praise

   The actor disliked the vaunts given by the crowd.

2. 2
   verb

   to show off

   My siblings were eager to vaunt for the rest of our family.

3. 3
   verb

   To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.

   Near-synonym: flaunt.

4. 4
   noun

   An instance of vaunting; a boast.

   The spirits beneath, whom I seduced / with other promises and other vaunts.

From Middle English vaunten, from Anglo-Norman vaunter, variant of Old French vanter, from Latin vānus (“vain, boastful”).

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