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31show off — verb Date: circa 1793 transitive verb to display proudly < wanted to show our new car off > intransitive verb to seek to attract attention by conspicuous behavior < boys showing off for the girls > …
32show off — 1. (Active.) Exhibit (ostentatiously), display, make a parade of, set off. 2. (Neuter.) Make a show, display one s self, put on airs …
33show-off — n 1. exhibitionist, extrovert, Sl. grand stander, Sl. hot dog, Sl. hotshot, Sl. show boat; dandy, fop, clotheshorse, coxcomb, peacock. 2. snob, name dropper, prig, high hatter. 3. blusterer, swaggerer, strutter, gascon, fanfaron, trumpeter,… …
34show off — to do something to attract attention to yourself. He shows off all the time, and you wonder if he s ever just a regular, real person …
35ˌshow ˈoff — phrasal verb showing disapproval to behave in a way that is intended to attract people s attention and make them admire you The children start showing off the minute anyone comes into the house.[/ex] …
36To show off — Show Show, v. t. [imp. {Showed}; p. p. {Shown}or {Showed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Showing}. It is sometimes written {shew}, {shewed}, {shewn}, {shewing}.] [OE. schowen, shewen, schewen, shawen, AS. sce[ a]wian, to look, see, view; akin to OS. scaw?n,… …
37To show off — Show Show, v. i. [Written also shew.] 1. To exhibit or manifest one s self or itself; to appear; to look; to be in appearance; to seem. [1913 Webster] Just such she shows before a rising storm. Dryden. [1913 Webster] All round a hedge upshoots,… …
38show off — Synonyms and related words: boast, brag, brandish, display, disport, exhibit, exhibitionist, expose, flash, flaunt, flaunter, grandstand, grandstand player, grandstander, hot dog, parade, please the crowd, showboat, swagger, trot out …
39show-off — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. display, ostentation; exhibitionist, peacock, hotshot (sl.), ham (inf.). Ant., shrinking violet (inf.). II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. boaster, exhibitionist, egotist; see braggart …
40show off — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. brag, swagger, make a spectacle of oneself; see boast 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. *hotdog, brag, swagger, strut, peacock, *showboat, *grandstand, flaunt, *strut one s stuff …
