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vaporing

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va·por·ing  (vpr-ng)
adj.
Foolishly bombastic; boastful.
n.
Boastful or bombastic talk or behavior: "All his . . . dreams of fame were the vaporings of a shoddy aesthete without talent" (Thomas Wolfe).
vapor·ing·ly adv.
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Noun1.vaporingvaporing - an instance of boastful talk; "his brag is worse than his fight"; "whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade"
brag, bragging, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, crow
boast, boasting, jactitation, self-praise - speaking of yourself in superlatives


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He was frighted even to the marrow, and was minded to give order for your instant enlargement, and that you be clothed in fine raiment and lodged as befitted one so great; but then came Merlin and spoiled all; for he persuaded the king that you are mad, and know not whereof you speak; and said your threat is but foolish- ness and idle vaporing.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
On the following morning, Captain Bonneville purchased a supply of buffalo meat from his braggadocio friends; who, with all their vaporing, were in fact a very forlorn horde, destitute of firearms, and of almost everything that constitutes riches in savage life.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
Swearing is the safety-valve through which the bad temper that might otherwise do serious internal injury to his mental mechanism escapes in harmless vaporing.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
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