Associations to the word «Vaunting»
Noun
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Wiktionary
VAUNT, verb. (intransitive) To speak boastfully.
VAUNT, verb. (transitive) To speak boastfully about.
VAUNT, verb. (transitive) To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
VAUNT, noun. A boast; an instance of vaunting.
VAUNT, noun. (obsolete) The first part.
Dictionary definition
VAUNT, noun. Extravagant self-praise.
VAUNT, verb. Show off.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.