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vaporingverbpresent participle of vapor to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excessa faded Southern belle tiresomely vaporing about all the handsome beaux she had in her long-ago youth blowing, boasting, bragging, bulling(slang), crowing, gasconading, swaggering, vaunting blustering, haranguing, puffingpridinggushingexulting, glorying, rejoicingbrandishing, displaying, exhibiting, exposing, flaunting, glorifying, parading, showing offmagnifying, maximizing blowing smoke belittling, deprecating, diminishing, discounting, laughing off, minimizing, playing down, pooh-poohing(also poohing), shrugging off, underrating, undervaluingbemoaning, lamenting, mourning, regretting ca. 1630 |