English-Finnish translations for boast

  • leuhkia
  • rehennelläMinä olen kova poika rehentelemään.
  • kerskaillaTanskalla ei ole mitään syytä kerskailla, eikä käsitykseni mukaan Ruotsillakaan. Denmark has nothing to boast about, and nor has Sweden, as far as I can see.
  • kerskuaLaskar Jihadin Internet-sivuilla oli tapana kerskua yhteyksillä Bin Ladenin terroristiryhmiin. Laskar Jihad's website used to boast of links to Bin Laden terror groups. Onko niin paljon muitakin yhteisön toimia, jotka voisivat kerskua 800 omaperäisellä erityiskokeilulla, jotka ovat onnistuneet erinomaisesti? Are there so many other European schemes which can boast 800 specific original experiments which were particularly successful? Siksi Euroopan parlamentin ei pitäisi jatkossa erityisemmin kerskua tällä raportilla. I think, therefore, that this report is not something which the European Parliament should specially boast about in the future.
  • lesottaa
  • mahtailla
  • omakehuomakehu haisee ja lemuaa
  • ylvästellä

Definition of boast

  • A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself
  • A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall
  • 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 speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult
  • To play a w:Squash_#Types_of_shots_played|boast shot
  • To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel
  • To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required

Examples

  • It was his regular boast that he could eat two full English breakfasts in one sitting.
  • The hotel boasts one of the best views of the sea
  • His family boasted a famous name

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