Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself. · [with about or of] To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol. · To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult. · To play a boast shot.
A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself. · Something that one brags about. · A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
From Middle English bosten, from bost (“boast, glory, noise, arrogance, presumption, pride, vanity”), probably of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bausuz (“inflated, swollen, puffed up, proud, arrogant, bad”). Cognate with Scots bost, boist (“to threaten, brag, boast”), Anglo-Norman bost (“ostentation”) (from Germanic). Related to Norwegian baus (“proud, bold, daring”), dialectal German baustern (“to swell”), German böse (“evil, bad, angry”), Dutch boos (“evil, wicked, angry”), West Frisian boas (“bad, wicked, angry, shrewd, clever”). Compare also dialectal Norwegian bausta, busta (“to rush onward, make a noise”). Possible doublet of boost. Compare typologically puffy, Russian напы́щенный (napýščennyj), наду́тый (nadútyj).
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