Toot your own horn

The answer

BOAST

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BOAST answer page.

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• BRAG (13 uses in xd)
• VAUNT (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for BOAST

Every other clue in this collection answered by BOAST, most used first.

• Brag - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
• Talk big - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
• Crow - used 27 times, most recently in 2024
• Toot one's own horn - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Talk a big game - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Be a braggart - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Gasconade - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
• Blow one's own horn - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Vaunt. - used 8 times, most recently in 1984
• Sing one's own praises - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Toot one's horn - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Vain claim - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• Be immodest - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Take as one's own - ADOPT, used 111 times
• Own up to - ADMIT, used 66 times
• "___ your life!" - NOTON, used 39 times
• "To ___ own self be true" - THINE, used 38 times
• Horn sounds - TOOTS, used 32 times
• "A League of ___ Own" - THEIR, used 30 times

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