Boast vs Roast - What's the difference?
boast | roast |
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)
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, 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.
(transitive, or, intransitive, or, ergative) To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.
To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
* Francis Bacon
(transitive, or, intransitive, or, ergative) To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat
To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
* Shakespeare
(figuratively) To admonish someone vigorously
(figuratively) To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
(metalworking) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
(en noun)
A cut of meat suited to roasting
A meal consisting of roast foods.
The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
(Originally fraternal) A comical event where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.
having been cooked by roasting
(figuratively) subjected to roasting, bantered, severely criticized
As nouns the difference between boast and roast
is that boast is a brag, a loud positive appraisal of oneself while roast is a cut of meat suited to roasting.As verbs the difference between boast and roast
is that boast is to brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself while roast is to cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.As an adjective roast is
having been cooked by roasting.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)
Anagrams
* * English reporting verbsroast
English
Verb
(en verb)- to roast meat on a spit
- to roast a potato in ashes
- In eggs boiled and roasted there is scarce difference to be discerned.
- Coffee beans need roasting before use.
- to roast chestnuts or peanuts
- roasted in wrath and fire
- I’m late home for the fourth time this week; my mate will really roast me this time.
- The class clown enjoys being roasted by mates as well as staff.
Coordinate terms
* (to cook) bake, boil, broil, fry, grill, poach, toastDerived terms
* roasting ear * roasting jackNoun
- Dark roast''' means that the coffee bean has been roasted to a higher temperature and for a longer period of time than in light '''roast .