Show Off

Definition: Show Off

Show Off

Verb

1. Display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously.

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Multilingual Slang

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Synonyms: Show Off

Boasting

Verb: boast, make a boast of, brag, vaunt, Puff, show off, flourish, crake, crack, trumpet, strut, swagger, vapor; blague, blow, four-flush, bluff.

Ostentation

Show off, show off one's paces; parade, march past; display, exhibit, put forward, hold up; trot out, hand out; sport, brandish, blazon forth; dangle, dangle before the eyes.

Crosswords: Show Off

Show off the goods (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

You're just trying to show off the size of your, err (GoldenEye; writing credit: Ian Fleming; Michael France)

If you can't beat 'em, show off! (Ed, Edd n' Eddy; writing credit: Jan Dirchsen; Mikkel Dyrting)

Why you got to show off so much (Telling Lies in America; writing credit: Joe Eszterhas)

This is what I'm gonna do. I am going to take the Christmas dog show off my calendar and take you shopping and rectify this situation (Roswell; writing credit: Ronald D. Moore; Gretchen J. Berg)

The Show Off (1926)

Gintberg Show Off (2000)

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Books

• The Greatest Show Off Earth (reference)

• Tippet Shows Off Washington (Show Off) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Crewmen show off beards they grew during a 138-day period when no one was off the ship. Possibly taken during Santa Fe's Aleutians tour, circa summer 1943. Credit: NAVY.

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Expression using "show off": To show off. Additional references.

Albanian

tregoj nga ana e mirë, nxjerr në publik. (various references)

Arabic 

‏تفاخر (blow, boast, boastfulness, brag, flaunt, ostentation, plume, rodomontade, shoot a line, show, splurge, swell, vaporize), ‏تباهى (blow, boast, brag, give oneself airs, make a hit, parade, plume, pride, take a pride, take a pride in, talk big), ‏تباه (boast, brag, flourish), ‏المتفاخر (blow, boaster, brag, proud). (various references)

Bulgarian 

надувам се (be arrogant, blow up, fill, preen, swell with importance, take on), парадирам (air, grandstand, parade), изтъквам (accent, accentuate, adduce, bring out, distinguish, emphasize, feature, highlight, notice, pinpoint, play up, point out, represent, show up, signalize, single out, throw up, urge), излагам (bring on reproach, display, enunciate, exhibit, expose, expound, formulate, hang, lay, lay out, propound, put forward, put to, recount, represent to smb., set out, set up, show, sink, state, subject, ventilate). (various references)

Chinese 

搬弄 (about, display, fiddle with, move sth). (various references)

Czech

stavìt na odiv (air, parade), chlubit se (boast, flaunt, plume, pride oneself, vaunt). (various references)

Dutch

pronken (display, parade, strut around), haarkloven (act wise, carp at, haze, quibble, split hairs). (various references)

Esperanto

saĝumi (act wise, split hairs), pavi (strut around). (various references)

Finnish

rehennellä (put on airs, swagger), prameilla (parade), mahtailla, koreilla (dress up, make a show of, overdress), komeilla (make a display, parade), keikailla (behave like a dandy), hienostella (give oneself airs). (various references)

French

se vanter (shoot a line), se parer, se faire remarquer, se crâner, vantard, poseur, marche sans projection, M.S.P., frimeur (showy), frimer, crâneur, crâner. (various references)

German

renommieren (boast, brag, swank), protzen (splurge, to flaunt), prange, prahlhans, maulheld (bravado, bully, loudmouth), klotzen (slog away), großtun (boast, brag), großtuer (boaster, bragger), angeber (boaster, braggart, braggarts, phoney, phony, poser, showoff, showoffs), angeben (accord, accuse, acquaint, announce, boast, brag, cite, convey, declare, denounce, explain, give, give an account, give as an excuse, hand, hand over, indicate, inform, let know, maintain, name, pass, pitch, point out, pose, pretend, put down, quote, report, serve, set, show, specify, spend, state, to brag). (various references)

Greek 

κάνω επίδειξη (demonstrate), προβάλλω (adduce, allege, come into sight, come up, peer, project, propound, put up), φιγουρατζής (ostentatious, poseur), επιδεικνύω (demonstrate, display, exhibit, flaunt, sport), επιδεικτικόσ (dashing, flamboyant, flashy, garish, meretricious, ostentatious, showy, sporty, swanky), επιδειξίασ (exhibitionist), επιδείχνω, επίδειξη (demonstration, demonstration of, display, limelight, ostentation, pageantry, show, showing, sideshow, splurge, swank), τονίζω (accent, accentuate, emphasize, highlight, intone, key, make much of, pitch, punctuate, stress, tone, tune). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תפאר (boast, brag, glory, vaunt), שויצר (braggart, fusser, swanker), רו�"ף רושם, ראותן. (various references)

Hungarian

felmutat (hold up, render, to elevate, to produce, to render, to set forth, to show off, to show up). (various references)

Indonesian

sesumbar, tampang (appearance of a person, put on), meneriakkan (yell out), beraksi (be in action). (various references)

Italian

sfoggiare (splurge), sbandierare (flaunt, wave), vantare (boast of, claim, commend, extol, extoll, praise, recommend, register, vaunt), ostentare (display, feign, flaunt, make a show of), mostrare (appear, bare, demonstrate, display, evince, indicate, manifest, point, point out, prove, show, suggest), esibizionista (exhibitionist), esibire (exhibit, play, show). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

能ある鷹は爪�'� す (a wise man keeps some of his talents in reserve, one shouldn't show off, the person who knows most often says least), 見� ��'張る (to show off), 見せびらかす (to flaunt, to show off), �'う (to parade, to pretend, to show off), 振り回す (to abuse, to brandish, to display, to flourish, to show off, to swing, to wave, to wield). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふりまわす (to abuse, to brandish, to display, to flourish, to show off, to swing, to wave, to wield), のうあるたかはつめ�'かくす (a wise man keeps some of his talents in reserve, one shouldn't show off, the person who knows most often says least), みせびらかす (to flaunt, to show off), みえ�'はる (to be pretentious, to put on airs, to show off), てらう (to parade, to pretend, to show off). (various references)

Manx

taishbyney (argue, demonstrate, display, evidence, evince; parade, exhibit, exposure, feature, manifest, produce, production, reveal, revelation, show, show down, sport). (various references)

Pig Latin

owshay offay.(various references)

Portuguese

realçar (accent, accentuate, contrast, emboss, emphasize, enhance, feature, focus, foil, point, set off, show, show up, underline, urge), mostrar (bare, create, demonstrate, denote, designate, develop, discover, display, draw, drew, evince, exert, exhibit, hold up, indicate, intimate, keep up, offer, point out, produce, record, reflect, reveal, set forth, show, show up, signify, to show, turn up, unfold, unmask, wear), exibir-se (peacock, prank, promenade), dar na vista, armar (arm, assemble, drape, hatch, man, pitch, set, spur, strech), alardear (blaze, boast, display, parade, vaunt). (various references)

Romanian

semeţi (boast, dare, put on airs), scoate în evidenţã (represent, set off), valorifica ceva, face pe grozavul (be on stilts, feel one's oats, prance, puff, Snoot, swank, talk big, talk through one's hat), face paradã. (various references)

Russian 

красоваться (pose). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

praviti se važan (cut a dash, give oneself airs). (various references)

Spanish

presumir (assume, conjecture, fancy, presume, suppose, suspect, swank, to assume, to suspect), presumido (attitudinizer, boastful, cocksure, conceited, hoity toity, pompous, poseur, presumptuous, pretentious, prig, priggish, self-assertive, self-conceited, self-important, smug, snooty, stuck up, vain, vainglorious), pavonearse (deceive, delude, parade, Peacock, prance, preen oneself, show out, strut, swagger), pasear (fleet, forest, hie, parade, perambulate, promenade, ramble, run, saunter, take a walk, toddle, travel, walk), hacer resaltar (bring out, pick out, project, set off, show up), hacer alarde de (parade, promenade, trot out), fachenda (splurge, swank), alarde (boast, brag, display, parade, show). (various references)

Swedish

sprätta (spit, spurt), snobba, skrytmåns (braggart, piss artist), fjädra sig (be cocky), chosa, briljera med (flash), briljera (crow, cut a dash, flourish, shine), åbäka. (various references)

Turkish

havasına girmek (dramatize oneself), havalı (airy, dashing, flash, flatulent, hot air, jaunty, La-di-da, la-di-dah, nifty, Nobby, ostentatious, pneumatic, posh, rakish, showy, stylish, swagger, swanky, swell, swish, tonish), hava atmak (crow, cut a dash, flaunt, give oneself airs, make a great display, make a show of, prank, put on airs, put on an act, put on dog, put on side, queen it over, splurge, swagger, swank), gözler önüne sermek (display, reveal, set out, show up), göstermek (adduce, betoken, demonstrate, denote, depict, designate, disclose, display, evidence, exercise, exhibit, expose, hold up, indicate, initiate, introduce, look, manifest, point, point out, point to, produce, prove, put forth, register, represent, run, set out, shew, show, show up, signify, speak, stamp, table, teach, trot out, uncork), gösterişçi (faker, ham, pretentious, raffish, showy, swanky), gösteriş yapmak (display, flaunt, make a demonstration, make a great display, make a show of, parade, splurge, sport, swank), gösteriş (affectation, array, blazon, blazonry, dash, display, flashiness, flourish, frill, furbelows, gaiety, glitter, glossiness, ostentation, panache, parade, pomposity, pretension, pride, put on, shew, show, showiness, showing off, splendidness, splurge, swank, vanity, veneer, veneering), fiyaka yapmak (give oneself airs, put on airs), fiyaka (air, airs, blazon, blazonry, gimmickry, showing off, splash, spruceness, swank), caka satmak (put on an act, put on side, swagger), caka (air, airs, gimmickry, ostentation, panache, showing off, swagger). (various references)

Turkmen 

kelзermek. (various references)

Ukrainian

відтіняти (outline, tint), виставляти у вигідному світлі, позерство, позер (poser, poseur). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: showoff.

-1 letter: howffs, whoofs.

-2 letters: hoofs, howff, howfs, whoof, whoso, woofs, woosh.

-3 letters: hoof, howf, hows, offs, oohs, shoo, show, woof, woos.

-4 letters: foh, how, off, oho, ohs, ooh, sow, who, woo, wos.

-5 letters: ho, of, oh, os, ow, sh, so, wo.

+1 letter: showoffs.