boast vs crow

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. 

crow

verb
  • To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag. 

  • To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance. 

  • To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it. 

noun
  • The cry of the bird known in the US as a rooster and in British English as a cockerel. 

  • A gangplank (corvus) used by the Ancient Roman navy to board enemy ships. 

  • The emblem of an eagle, a sign of military rank. 

  • The mesentery of an animal. 

  • A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call. 

  • Any of various dark-coloured nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euploea. 

  • An ill-tempered and obstinate woman, or one who otherwise has features resembling the bird; a harpy. 

  • A black person. 

  • A bar of iron with a beak, crook or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar. 

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