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show-off

  [shoh-awf, -of]
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–noun
1. a person given to pretentious display.
2. the act of showing off.
Origin:
1770–80; n. use of v. phrase show off

Related forms:
show-offish, adjective

Synonyms:
1. exhibitionist, braggart.
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show·off   (shō'ôf', -ŏf')   
n.  

  1. The act of showing off.

  2. One who shows off.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

show-off 
1776 (n.) "a display;" see show (v.). In ref. to the person who makes an ostentatious display, attested from 1924. The verb is first recorded 1793.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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