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Verb

Present participle for to boast about one's achievements

Present participle for to behave in a manner intended to impress

Present participle for to walk in an exaggerated or showy manner

Present participle for to ostentatiously draw attention to

Adjective

Tending to brag or to have a high opinion of oneself

Noun

An act of talking with excessive pride and self-satisfaction

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Verb

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Present participle for to boast about one's achievements

blowing your own horn

singing your own praises

flattering oneself

crowing

blowing your own trumpet

gloating

swaggering

grandstanding

patting oneself on the back

congratulating oneself

tooting one's own horn

speaking for Buncombe

congratulating oneself on

giving a good account of yourself

shooting one's mouth off

feeling self-satisfied about

idealizing^US

reveling^US

revelling^UK

idealising^UK

reveling in

holding head high

piquing oneself in

patting oneself on the back for

giving oneself a pat on the back for

rejoicing in

feeling satisfaction at

feeling proud of

feeling proud about

flattering oneself on

rejoicing at

giving oneself airs about

showing off about

taking great pride in

patting oneself on the back about

preening oneself about

pluming oneself on

gloating about

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“She complained later that masses of people visited Monaco and Monte Carlo, but only Tippy would swank about it.”

Verb

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Present participle for to behave in a manner intended to impress

making a spectacle of

drawing attention to oneself

playing to the gallery

playing to the cheap seats

making your presence felt

getting noticed

making one's presence felt

hams up

displaying

doing something for effect

trying to attract attention

making a show

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“Do you think he's going to give up a chance to swank around in a velvet coat onstage and show off his profile?”

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Present participle for to walk in an exaggerated or showy manner

gambolling^UK

gamboling^US

reveling^US

revelling^UK

kicking up one's heels

springing up and down

tripping the light fantastic

hitting the dance floor

walking in an affected way

striding angrily

walking in an dainty way

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“He would swank around the front porch in his nankeens, his white vest, and his white suspenders, talking politics.”

Verb

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Present participle for to ostentatiously draw attention to

Adjective

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Tending to brag or to have a high opinion of oneself

too big for your britches

patronizing^US

patronising^UK

too big for your boots

too big for your breeches

self-infatuated

self-oriented

self-involved

wrapped up in oneself

throwing one's weight around

think too highly of oneself

above oneself

la-de-da

have an excessively high opinion of oneself

think a lot of oneself

think one is the cat's pyjamas

think one is the cat's whiskers

pleased with yourself

think one is God's gift

blowing one's own horn

offensively self-assertive

throwing one's weight about

phony^US

phoney^UK

blowing one's own trumpet

smart-assed^US

smart-arsed^UK

not backwards in coming forwards

comfortable in one's own skin

having nerves of steel

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Noun

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An act of talking with excessive pride and self-satisfaction

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