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Jaunt vs Vaunt - What's the difference?

jaunt | vaunt |

In lang=en terms the difference between jaunt and vaunt

is that jaunt is to ride on a jaunting car while vaunt is to boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between jaunt and vaunt

is that jaunt is (obsolete) to jolt; to jounce while vaunt is (obsolete) the first part.

As nouns the difference between jaunt and vaunt

is that jaunt is (archaic) a wearisome journey while vaunt is a boast; an instance of vaunting or vaunt can be (obsolete) the first part.

As verbs the difference between jaunt and vaunt

is that jaunt is to ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion while vaunt is to speak boastfully.

jaunt

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic) A wearisome journey.
  • * Our Savior, meek, and with untroubled mind After his aëry jaunt , though hurried sore. Hungry and cold, betook him to his rest. - Milton
  • A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.
  • To ride on a jaunting car.
  • (obsolete) To jolt; to jounce.
    • (Bale)

    Derived terms

    * jaunting car

    Anagrams

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    vaunt

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) vaunter, variant of (etyl) vanter, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To speak boastfully.
  • * 1829 — , chapter XC
    • "The number," said he, "is great, but what can be expected from mere citizen soldiers? They vaunt and menace in time of safety; none are so arrogant when the enemy is at a distance; but when the din of war thunders at the gates they hide themselves in terror."
  • To speak boastfully about.
  • To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
  • * Bible, 1 Cor. xiii. 4
    • Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.
  • * Milton
    • My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil.
    Synonyms
    * (speak boastfully) boast, brag
    Derived terms
    * vaunter

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A boast; an instance of vaunting.
  • * Milton
    • the spirits beneath, whom I seduced / with other promises and other vaunts
  • * 1904 — , Book II, chapter III
    • He has answered me back, vaunt' for ' vaunt , rhetoric for rhetoric.

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) . See avant, vanguard.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) The first part.
    • (Shakespeare)
    (Webster 1913)

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