Word Meanings - BRAGGART - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A boaster. O, I could play the woman with mine eyes, And braggart with my tongue. Shak.

Related words: (words related to BRAGGART)

• TONGUELET
  A little tongue.
• TONGUE-SHELL
  Any species of Lingula.
• WOMANLY
  Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
• COULD
  Was, should be, or would be, able, capable, or susceptible. Used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present.
• BOASTER
  A stone mason's broad-faced chisel.
• TONGUESTER
  One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.
• WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
  Womanhood. Chaucer.
• TONGUED
  Having a tongue. Tongued like the night crow. Donne.
• TONGUE-TIED
  1. Destitute of the power of distinct articulation; having an impediment in the speech, esp. when caused by a short frænum. 2. Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause. Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity. Shak.
• TONGUE-PAD
  A great talker.
• WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
  An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.
• TONGUE-SHAPED
  Shaped like a tongue; specifically , linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf.
• BRAGGART
  A boaster. O, I could play the woman with mine eyes, And braggart with my tongue. Shak.
• WOMANHOOD
  1. The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind. Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. Spenser. Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood. Tennyson. 2.
• TONGUEFISH
  A flounder native of the southern coast of the United States.
• WOMANIZE
  To make like a woman; to make effeminate. V. Knox.
• WOMANLIKE
  Like a woman; womanly. Womanlike, taking revenge too deep. Tennyson.
• WOMANLESS
  Without a woman or women.
• WOMAN
  1. To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it. Daniel. 2. To make effeminate or womanish. Shak. 3. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. "To have him see me woman'd." Shak.
• WOMANKIND
  The females of the human race; women, collectively. A sanctuary into which womankind, with her tools of magic, the broom and mop, has very infrequent access. Hawthorne.
• SERPENT-TONGUED
  Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
• AIRWOMAN
  A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• UNWOMAN
  To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning.
• HONEY-TONGUED
  Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
• SHRILL-TONGUED
  Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• BONDSWOMAN
  See BONDWOMAN
• ADDER'S-TONGUE
  A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.
• LONG-TONGUE
  The wryneck.
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• TRUMPET-TONGUED
  Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.
• NEEDLEWOMAN
  A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.
• DAIRYWOMAN
  A woman who attends to a dairy.
• TWO-TONGUED
  Double-tongued; deceitful. Sandys.
• GENTLEWOMAN
  1. A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon. 2. A woman who attends a lady of high rank. Shak.