blat vs boast

blat

verb
  • To utter loudly or foolishly; blurt. 

  • To talk inconsiderately; blab. 

  • To cry, as a calf or sheep; bleat. 

  • To produce an overrich or overblown sound on a brass instrument such as a trumpet, trombone, or tuba. 

  • To make a senseless noise. 

noun
  • The Soviet system of connections and social relationships; one's social or business network (in Russian or Soviet society). 

boast

verb
  • To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself. 

  • To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol. 

  • To play a boast shot. 

  • To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel. 

  • To possess something special (e.g. as a feature). 

  • To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required. 

noun
  • A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall. 

  • A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself. 

  • Something that one brags about. 

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