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      "From Middle English bosten,  from bost (\u201cboast, glory, noise, arrogance, presumption, pride, vanity\u201d), probably of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bausuz (\u201cinflated, swollen, puffed up, proud, arrogant, bad\u201d). Cognate with Scots bost, boist (\u201cto threaten, brag, boast\u201d), Anglo-Norman bost (\u201costentation\u201d) (from Germanic). Related to Norwegian baus (\u201cproud, bold, daring\u201d), dialectal German baustern (\u201cto swell\u201d), German b\u00f6se (\u201cevil, bad, angry\u201d), Dutch boos (\u201cevil, wicked, angry\u201d), West Frisian boas (\u201cbad, wicked, angry, shrewd, clever\u201d). Compare also dialectal Norwegian bausta, busta (\u201cto rush onward, make a noise\u201d).",
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            "mean": "A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself."
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            "mean": "Something that one brags about.\nIt was his regular boast that he could eat two full English breakfasts in one sitting."
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            "mean": "(squash) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall."
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            "mean": "(intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself."
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            "mean": "(transitive) (used with \"about\" y \"of\") To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol."
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            "mean": "(obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult."
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            "mean": "(squash) To play a boast shot."
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            "mean": "(ergative) To possess something special (e.g. as a feature).\nThe hotel boasts one of the best views of the sea.\nHis family boasted a famous name."
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        "name": "Verb_2",
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            "mean": "(masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel."
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            "mean": "(sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required."
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            "mean": "^  1849-1850, John Weale, Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms used in Architecture, Building, and Engineering\n\n\n\u201cboast\u201d, inLexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019\u20132022."
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