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Broasted vs Boasted - What's the difference?

broasted | boasted |

As an adjective broasted

is fried under pressure.

As a verb boasted is

(boast).

broasted

English

(wikipedia broasted)

Adjective

(-)
  • Fried under pressure.
  • * 2004 , Joanne Raetz Stuttgen, Cafe Wisconsin: a guide to Wisconsin's down-home cafes , page 21:
    • The Phillips Cafe is known for its Flavor Crisp broasted chicken, and Don keeps track of just how much of the crispy poultry pieces he sells each year.
  • * 2009 , William Gibson, Spook Country :
    • She ate a dollar-fifty-nine barbecue beef rib with broasted potatoes off a paper plate on the trunk of the Passat, waiting for Alberto to turn up

    Anagrams

    *

    See also

    * roasted, fried, broiled, boiled

    boasted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (boast)

    • 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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
    • , volume=189, issue=2, page=27, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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",
  • (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