Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

pretensions; puff, puffery; flourish, fanfaronade†; gasconade; blague†, bluff, gas [Slang]; highfalutin, highfaluting†; hot air, spread-eagleism [U.S.]; brag, braggardism†; bravado, bunkum, buncombe; jactitation†, jactancy†; bounce; venditation†, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology†, heroics; Chauvinism; exaggeration &c 549. vanity &c 880; vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.]; much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen [Lat.]. exultation; gloriation†, glorification; flourish of trumpets; triumph &c 883. boaster; braggart, braggadocio; Gascon [Fr.], fanfaron†, pretender, soi-disant [Fr.]; blower [U.S.], bluffer, Foxy Quiller†; blusterer &c 887; charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter; puppy &c (fop) 854. V. boast, make a boast of, brag, vaunt, Puff, show off, flourish, crake†, crack, trumpet, strut, swagger, vapor; blague†, blow, four-flush [Slang], bluff. exult, crow, crow over, neigh, chuckle, triumph; throw up one's cap; talk big, se faire valoir [Fr.], faire claquer son fouet [Fr.], take merit to oneself, make a merit of, sing Io triumphe†, holloa before one is out of the wood†. Adj. boasting &c v.; magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant [Fr.]; vainglorious &c (conceited) 880; highfalutin, highfaluting†; spread- eagle [U.S.]. elate, elated; jubilant, triumphant, exultant; in high feather; flushed, flushed with victory; cock-a-hoop; on stilts. vaunted &c v.. Adv. vauntingly &c adj.. Phr. let the galled jade wince [Hamlet]; facta non verba [Lat.].