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blew smokephrasepast tense of blow smoke to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excessHe's been blowing smoke about his accomplishments all afternoon. blew, boasted, bragged, bulled(slang), crowed, gasconaded, swaggered, vapored, vaunted blustered, harangued, puffedpridedgushedexulted, gloried, rejoicedbrandished, displayed, exhibited, exposed, flaunted, glorified, paraded, showed offmagnified, maximized belittled, deprecated, diminished, discounted, laughed off, minimized, played down, pooh-poohed(also poohed), shrugged off, underrated, undervaluedbemoaned, lamented, mourned, regretted to engage in casual or rambling conversationShe has a habit of blowing smoke when she gets nervous. babbled, blabbed, cackled, chaffered(British), chatted, chattered, chinned(slang), conversed, gabbed, gabbled, gassed, jabbered, jawed, kibitzed(also kibbitzed), nattered, palavered, pattered, prated, prattled, ran on, rapped, rattled, schmoozed(or shmoozed), talked, twittered, visited gossiped, tattleddescanted, discussed, expatiatedyakked(also yacked), yammered, yapped chewed the fat(also chewed the rag), shot the breeze, talked a blue streak |