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Vapor v. i. (past & past part. vapored; pres. part. vaporing) (Written also vapour)

To pass off in fumes, or as a moist, floating substance, whether visible or invisible, to steam; to be exhaled; to evaporate.

To emit vapor or fumes. (R.) "Running waters vapor not so much as standing waters."

To talk idly; to boast or vaunt; to brag. "Poets used to vapor much after this manner." "We vapor and say, By this time Matthews has beaten them."

adjective

Vaporing adj. Talking idly; boasting; vaunting.

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Etymology of 'Vaporing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Vaporing" Quotes from Famous Books

... more civil than arrogant, taking no notice of his vaporing and bravados, after having stared about him, as has been said, turned his back and showed his posteriors to Don Quixote, and with great phlegm and calmness laid himself down again in the cage; which Don Quixote perceiving, he ordered the keeper to give him some ...

— Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

... that you represent, as well as many other states in the south, would be represented, both in the Senate and House, by Republicans. But for these crimes the boast attributed to you, that one hundred and thirty-eight solid southern votes would be cast for the Democratic ticket, would be but idle vaporing; but now we feel that it is a ...

— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman

... a pity they don't look at home," Cuthbert laughed good-temperedly. "I have not yet learnt that either purity or honesty, or a sense of duty are conspicuous at Montmartre or Belleville. There is just as much empty vaporing there as there is down the Boulevards. As to courage, they may have a chance presently of showing whether they have more of it than the better class. Personally, I should doubt it." Then he added more seriously, "My dear Dampierre, I can of course guess where you have learnt all this. ...

— A Girl of the Commune • George Alfred Henty