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crake
CIDE DICTIONARY
crake, v. t. & i. [See Crack.].
- To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake. [1913 Webster]
- To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully. [1913 Webster]"Each man may crake of that which was his own." [1913 Webster]
crake, n.
A boast. See Crack, n. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
crake, n.
1 any rail (see RAIL(3)), esp. a corncrake.
2 the cry of a corncrake.
1 any rail (see RAIL(3)), esp. a corncrake.
2 the cry of a corncrake.
Etymology
ME f. ON kr{aacute}ka (imit.): cf. CROAK
ROGET THESAURUS
crake
Boasting
N boasting, boast, vaunt, crake, pretense, pretensions, puff, puffery, flourish, fanfaronade, gasconade, blague, bluff, gas, highfalutin, highfaluting, hot air, spread-eagleism, brag, braggardism, bravado, bunkum, buncombe, jactitation, jactancy, bounce, venditation, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology, heroics, Chauvinism, exaggeration, vanity, vox et praeterea nihil, much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen, exultation, gloriation, glorification, flourish of trumpets, triumph, boaster, braggart, braggadocio, Gascon, fanfaron, pretender, soi-disant, blower, bluffer, Foxy Quiller, blusterer, charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter, puppy, boasting, magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant, vainglorious, highfalutin, highfaluting, spread- eagle, elate, elated, jubilant, triumphant, exultant, in high feather, flushed, flushed with victory, cock-a-hoop, on stilts, vaunted, vauntingly, let the galled jade wince, facta non verba.VB boast, make a boast of, brag, vaunt, Puff, show off, flourish, crake, crack, trumpet, strut, swagger, vapor, blague, blow, four-flush, bluff, exult, crow, crow over, neigh, chuckle, triumph, throw up one's cap, talk big, se faire valoir, faire claquer son fouet, take merit to oneself, make a merit of, sing Io triumphe, holloa before one is out of the wood.
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