Bast vs Boast - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between bast and boast

is that bast is fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord while boast is a brag, a loud positive appraisal of oneself.

As a verb boast is

to brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.

bast

English

(wikipedia)

Noun

(en noun)

Fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord.

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* 1919, (Ronald Firbank), (Valmouth) , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 87

I thought I saw Him in the Long Walk there, by the bed of Nelly Roche, tending a fallen flower with a wisp of bast .

* 1997 : ‘Egil's Saga’, tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders , Penguin 2001, page 145

He had taken along a long bast rope in his sleigh, since it was the custom on longer journeys to have a spare rope in case the reins needed mending.

Anagrams

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boast

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) boosten, bosten, from .

Noun

(en noun)

A brag, a loud positive appraisal of oneself.

(squash) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.

Verb

(en verb)

To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.

* 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .

On no account will he or any other kind be able to boast that he's escaped the pursuit of those who can follow so detailed and comprehensive a method of enquiry.

To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.

* (John Milton)

Lest bad men should boast / Their specious deeds.

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(obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.

* Bible, Psalms xiiv. 8

In God we boast all the day long.

(squash) To play a .

(ergative) To possess something special.

Synonyms

* brag

Derived terms

* boastful * boastfully * outboast

Etymology 2

Verb

(en verb)

(masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.

(Weale)

(sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.

Anagrams

* * English reporting verbs