See boust on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "enm",
"3": "bosten"
},
"expansion": "Middle English bosten",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English bosten.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "boust",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Scots entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to boast"
],
"id": "en-boust-sco-verb-GV5qaxM1",
"links": [
[
"boast",
"boast"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/bust/"
}
],
"word": "boust"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "yol",
"2": "enm",
"3": "bost"
},
"expansion": "Middle English bost",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "yol",
"2": "xno",
"3": "bost"
},
"expansion": "Anglo-Norman bost",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English bost, from Anglo-Norman bost.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "yol",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "boust",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Yola",
"lang_code": "yol",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Yola entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "yol",
"name": "Talking",
"orig": "yol:Talking",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
14,
19
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
19,
26
]
],
"english": "But with all their bravado they were soon taught",
"ref": "1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5, page 86:",
"text": "Mot w'all aar boust, hi soon was ee-teight",
"translation": "But with all their bravado they were soon taught",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"boast, bravado"
],
"id": "en-boust-yol-noun-g5NPVK9U",
"links": [
[
"boast",
"boast"
],
[
"bravado",
"bravado"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/buːst/"
}
],
"word": "boust"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "enm",
"3": "bosten"
},
"expansion": "Middle English bosten",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English bosten.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "boust",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Scots entries with incorrect language header",
"Scots lemmas",
"Scots terms derived from Middle English",
"Scots terms inherited from Middle English",
"Scots verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"to boast"
],
"links": [
[
"boast",
"boast"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/bust/"
}
],
"word": "boust"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "yol",
"2": "enm",
"3": "bost"
},
"expansion": "Middle English bost",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "yol",
"2": "xno",
"3": "bost"
},
"expansion": "Anglo-Norman bost",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English bost, from Anglo-Norman bost.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "yol",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "boust",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Yola",
"lang_code": "yol",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Yola entries with incorrect language header",
"Yola lemmas",
"Yola nouns",
"Yola terms derived from Anglo-Norman",
"Yola terms derived from Middle English",
"Yola terms inherited from Middle English",
"Yola terms with quotations",
"yol:Talking"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
14,
19
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
19,
26
]
],
"english": "But with all their bravado they were soon taught",
"ref": "1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5, page 86:",
"text": "Mot w'all aar boust, hi soon was ee-teight",
"translation": "But with all their bravado they were soon taught",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"boast, bravado"
],
"links": [
[
"boast",
"boast"
],
[
"bravado",
"bravado"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/buːst/"
}
],
"word": "boust"
}
Download raw JSONL data for boust meaning in All languages combined (1.9kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.