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Peacocking vs Boastful - What's the difference?

peacocking | boastful |

As a noun peacocking

is (seduction community) ostentatious]] dress or behaviour employed by a man in an attempt to impress [[woman|women.

As an adjective boastful is

tending to boast or brag.

peacocking

English

Noun

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  • (seduction community) Ostentatious]] dress or behaviour employed by a man in an attempt to impress [[woman, women.
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    • Peacocking may take place in legislatures and lodges, churches and chain stores. But it is particularly evident and bizarre in academia, a world where everyone is supposed to produce logically ordered exchanges of ideas.
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    • Men do it to get attention from women. Peacocking in pickup circles is pretty much a given. It's not for everyone and if you do decide to do it, you have to fully commit to it.
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    • Brian: Quagmire told us to dress flashy so girls would notice us.
    Stewie: Oh, right. Peacocking .
  • * Sandor Johnson, Call of the Loons (page 272)
    • It's called peacocking . Gets the chicks to notice me. Gives 'em a conversation piece.

    boastful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * boastfull (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tending to boast or brag.
    • He wrote a boastful autobiography, recording all his great deeds.

    Derived terms

    * boastfulness

    See also

    * proud

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