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• present participle of vapor.

vaporing

American  

[vey-per-ing] / ˈveɪ pər ɪŋ /

adjective

1. that gives forth vapor.

2. boastful; bragging.

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noun

1. an act or instance of bragging or blustering; boastful talk.

Other Word Forms

• vaporingly
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of vaporing

First recorded in 1620–30; vapor + -ing ², -ing ¹

Example Sentences

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vaporing

The press was busy vaporing upon the significance of a de Valera free to roam the Free State.

From Time Magazine Archive

Apparently the only contribution Fiver could make was this beetle-spirited vaporing.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

We have a right to reject with pity or with scorn the stammerings of incompetence, the babble of lunacy, or the vaporing of imposture.

From Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects by Kenyon Cox

We call it by every name of fleeting, dreaming, vaporing imagery.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes

“See here, I don’t want to take advantage of your beastly temper, but if you are really bent on selling the place, and not vaporing as usual, I’m open to make you an offer.”

From Lorimer of the Northwest by Alfred James Dewey