▪ I. boaster1
(ˈbəʊstə(r))
Forms: 4 bostere, booster, bostour, boosteere, 4–6 boster, 5 boister, bostare, bostoure, 5–6 boastar, 6 bostar, 6– boaster.
[f. boast v.1 + -er1.]
One who boasts: † a. a loud talker (obs.); b. one who threatens (obs.); c. one who extols his own deeds or excellences, a braggart, vaunter, arrogant person.
| c 1325 E.E. Allit. P. B. 1499 Now a boster on benche bibbes þer-of. c 1375 Wyclif Antecrist, in Three Treat. (Todd) 131 Þei chesen to hem boosters sotil men & slyȝe, riche, proude, & Japers. ? a 1400 Chester Pl. 106, I wotte, by this boisters beare That tribute I muste paye. 1580 Baret Alv. B 964 A craker, a boster, a glorious personne. 1747 Lady M. W. Montague Lett. xxxviii. III. 63 Complainers are seldom pitied, and boasters are seldom believed. 1758 Johnson Idler No. 14 ¶9 The boaster..blusters only to be praised. 1870 Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. ix. 6 He plucks the boaster's song out of his mouth. |
▪ II. ˈboaster2
(ˈbəʊstə(r))
[f. boast v.2 + -er1.]
A broad-faced chisel used by masons in making the surface of a stone nearly smooth.
| 1876 in Gwilt. |