showing off

Speech parts

1. showing off - Noun

2. showing off - Verb

Meaning

showing off

present participle of show off

showing off (plural showings off)

The action of a show off

showing-off (uncountable)

Behaviour considered to be showing off

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Alternative names

showing-off

Examples

One cannot review a bad book without showing off. W. H. Auden

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory. Bruce Lee

Fruit... it's just God showing off. "Look at all the colours I know!" Dylan Moran

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents - because they have a tame child-creature in their house. Frank Zappa

Sarah Palin is now the guy who hangs out in the high school parking lot showing off his car, five years after he graduated. Rachel Maddow

Showing off other people's feathers. Dutch Proverb

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