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English
Verb
vapouring
- present participle and gerund of vapour
Noun
vapouring (plural vapourings)
- Boasting; blustering.
1809, Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseudonym; Washington Irving], chapter IV, in A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. , volume II, New York, N.Y.: Inskeep & Bradford, , →OCLC, book VI, page 110:All these valorous vapourings had a considerable effect in convincing certain profound sages, many of whom began to think the general a hero of unutterable loftiness and magnanimity of soul, particularly as he was continually protesting on the honour of a soldier—a marvellously high sounding asseveration.
, T. King, “Lovers Quarrels; or, Like Master Like Man: An Interlude, in One Act. Altered from ‘The Mistake’ of Sir John Vanbrugh, by T. King.”, in The Select London Stage; a Collection of the Most Reputed Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, Melo-dramas, Farces, and Interludes. , London: G. Balne, , →OCLC, act I, scene iii, page 5, column 2:Here, take thy satin pincushion, with thy curious half-hundred of pins in it, that you made such a vapouring about yesterday; tell them carefully, there's not one wanting.
1871, William Tennant, Anster Fair, page 4:I see– but fie, thou brainish Muse! what mean These vapourings, and brags of what by thee is seen?