show-off

Speech parts

1. show-off - Noun

2. show-off - Verb

Meaning

someone who deliberately behaves in such a way as to attract attention

display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously

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show off

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Examples

I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist ... Well, a show-off anyway. Alice Roosevelt Longworth

The main problem for the average reader -- particularly of The Great Beast -- is that Crowley seems such an intolerable show-off that it is hard to believe anything he says. Colin Wilson

I was a bit of a show-off in school and loved playing dress-up, and my passion for it just grew as I got older. Jai Courtney

I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers. Mika

I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off. Morris Gleitzman

As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So. Rupert Everett

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