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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.
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Other Words From

  • vapor·ing·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of vaporing1

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

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

“Let us have no vaporings or girlish shrieks.”

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

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

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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