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• present participle of vapor.

vaporing

American  

[vay-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

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Etymology

Origin of vaporing

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

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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

The morning was hurrying by and this vaporing was a hindrance to be shuffled off.

From Rose MacLeod by Alice Brown

They became very insolent and boastful, and would sharpen their knives and tomahawks upon the door-sills of the colonists, vaporing in mysterious phrase of the great deeds they were about to perform.

From King Philip Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

A plague upon your idle vaporing, You vagabond!—D’ye fancy we don’t know you?

From The Comedies of Terence by George Colman

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