vaporing

[vey-per-ing]

adjective

1. that gives forth vapor.

2. boastful; bragging.

noun

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

Other Word Forms

• vaporingly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of vaporing¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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“Let us have no vaporings or girlish shrieks.”

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President Harry S. Truman described the art as “merely the vaporings of half-baked lazy people.”

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“I always feel like I’m the only one vaporing,” he said.

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One heard that he was preaching higher wages in the public houses, another that he was asking Hodge what he got out of dear bread, a third that he was vaporing about commons and enclosures.

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