Proud vs Boast - What's the difference?
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Gratified; feeling honoured (by something); feeling satisfied or happy about a fact or event.
Possessed of a due sense of what one is worth or deserves.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 (chiefly, Biblical) Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious.
* 1611 , Proverbs 16:5, King James Version
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=(Hilaire Belloc), title=(Cautionary Tales for Children), section=Godolphin Horne Who was cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black
, passage=Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born; / He held the human race in scorn, / And lived with all his sisters where / His father lived, in Berkeley Square. / And oh! The lad was deathly proud ! / He never shook your hand or bowed, / But merely smirked and nodded thus: / How perfectly ridiculous! / Alas! That such Affected Tricks / Should flourish in a child of six!}}
Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
(obsolete) Brave, valiant; gallant.
Standing out or raised; swollen.
(obsolete) Excited by sexual desire; (of female animals) in heat.
Happy, usually used with a sense of honor, as in "I'm so proud' to have you in our town." But occasionally just plain happy as in "I'm ' proud to see gas prices down." This is a widespread colloquial usage in the southern United States.
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.
To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
* 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
* (John Milton)
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
, volume=189, issue=2, page=27, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
* Bible, Psalms xiiv. 8
(squash) To play a .
(ergative) To possess something special.
(masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
(sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
In obsolete terms the difference between proud and boast
is that proud is Excited by sexual desire; (of female animals) in heat while boast is to speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.As an adjective proud
is gratified; feeling honoured (by something); feeling satisfied or happy about a fact or event.As a noun boast is
a brag, a loud positive appraisal of oneself.As a verb boast is
to brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.proud
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Alternative forms
* prowd (obsolete)Adjective
(er)citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
- Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* ashamedDerived terms
* do someone proud * house-proud * proud as a peacock * proudfall * proud-hearted * proudling * proudly * proudness * proud-pied * proud-stomachedAnagrams
* ----boast
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) boosten, bosten, from .Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- 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.
- Lest bad men should boast / Their specious deeds.
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",
- In God we boast all the day long.
Synonyms
* bragDerived terms
* boastful * boastfully * outboastEtymology 2
Verb
(en verb)- (Weale)