Flaunt vs Brandish - What's the difference?
flaunt | brandish | Synonyms |
(obsolete) To wave or flutter smartly in the wind.
To parade, display with ostentation.
(intransitive, archaic, or, literary) To show off, as with flashy clothing.
* Arbuthnot
* Alexander Pope
* 1856 , ,
* 1897 , ,
To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
* Drake
To bear something with ostentatious show.
* 2011 , , Binay: Blame corruption on modern consumerism , Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation, [http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/315850/binay-blame-corruption-modern-consumerism]:
The act of flourishing or waving.
In transitive terms the difference between flaunt and brandish
is that flaunt is to parade, display with ostentation while brandish is to bear something with ostentatious show.As verbs the difference between flaunt and brandish
is that flaunt is to wave or flutter smartly in the wind while brandish is to move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.As a noun brandish is
the act of flourishing or waving.flaunt
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- She's always flaunting her designer clothes.
- You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot.
- One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade.
- [T]he younger belles had begun to flaunt in the French fashions of flimsy muslins, shortwaisted— narrow-skirted.
- … and Mrs. Wix seemed to flaunt there in her finery.
Usage notes
* Do not confuse with flout.brandish
English
Verb
(es)- He brandished his sword at the pirates.
- the quivering lance which he brandished bright
- to brandish syllogisms
- It sets the stage for cutting corners in our principles just so we can brandish a perceived badge of stature.