Word for trying to boost your image unnecessarily
A typical request where I have a word on the tip of my tongue that I just can't place.
UPDATED: A lot of the suggestions are direct synonyms of bragging so I'll try and clear up the context more.
The context that made me think of this word was an argument where one of the participants was spending a lot of time trying to sound intelligent or talk down to the other instead of resolving the issue, so some better examples of similar meanings might be
"Get off of your high horse"
or
"Stop going for the moral high-ground"
but in shorter form.
"Stop singing your praises and get to the point"
Is another good example.
Context could be :
"Enough of the ____. Get to the point."
or in verb form
"Stop ____ and get to the point".
EDIT: As in the comments, formal or slang suggestions accepted.
It could also be a more archaic term, something a King might say to a long-winded herald.
UPDATE:
Synonyms that are close to the right example:
- ensky
- adulate
- flatter
- commend
- glorify
- praise
- laud
These are good but I feel that something with more negative connotations would be better, or something describing a surplus of one of the above.
Other possible synonyms that don't quite fit:
http://thesaurus.com/browse/brag
- horn blowing
- showboating
- grandstanding
- narcissism
- ego-boosting
- ego-stroking
- pissing contest
- chest-beating
- self-promotion
- self-love
- double-speak
One strange example that came the closest was "brown-nosing". Is there a similar term that could be used for brown-nosing oneself so to speak?
Can't offer much else other than I think it's a Gerund, so ending in -ing.
Thanks for all the suggestions anyway.
Solution 1:
Pontificating could work.
For more colloquial use, Bluster is appropriate.
Big Talk might also work
Solution 2:
Enough of the bloviating. Get to the point.
Bloviate To discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner: "the rural Babbitt who bloviates about 'progress' and 'growth'" (George Rebeck).
It could also be a more archaic term, something a King might say to a long-winded herald
Magniloquent: speaking in or characterized by a high-flown often bombastic style or manner
Lexiphanic: using ostentatiously recondite words : bombastic, pretentiousLexiphanes (bombastic speaker in the dialogue Lexiphanes by Lucian, 2d century A.D. Greek satirist)
Ampullosity: Turgidity or bombast
Solution 3:
Formal:
- Enough self-aggrandizing. Get to the point.
- Enough congratulating yourself. Get to the point.
Slang (this is what I might say personally):
- Enough big upping yourself. Get to the point.
- Enough congratulating yourself on your awesomeness. Get to the point.
Solution 4:
- Stop acting so self-important, and get to the point.
The most usual form of monomania has commonly the same beginning as that from which Edgar Caswall suffered—an over-large idea of self-importance
- Stop being so vainglorious, get to the point.
He was an active, irritable, fuming, vainglorious little man, and elevated in his own opinion, by being the proxy of Mr. Astor.
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He was silent for a minute, casting about for the least vainglorious way in which to express himself.
"Please don't think I'm bragging," he began. "I don't intend it that way at all. But I have a feeling that I am what I may call a natural student. I can study by myself. I take to it kindly, like a duck to water. You see yourself what I did with grammar. And I've learned much of other things - you would never dream how much. And I'm only getting started."
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- Enough of your patronizing. Get to the point.
- Stop patronising me. Get to the point.
- Stop being so patronising, get to the point.
She was furious. What right had Lord Dawlish to look down his nose and murmur 'Noblesse oblige' when she asked him a question, as if she had suggested that he should commit some crime? It was the patronizing way he had said it that infuriated her, as if he were a superior being of some kind, governed by codes which she could not be expected to understand.
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