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Show off   /ʃoʊ ɔf/   Listen
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Show  v. t.  (past showed; past part. shown; pres. part. showing)  
1.
To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the person or thing seeing or beholding; as, to show a house; show your colors; shopkeepers show customers goods (show goods to customers). "Go thy way, shew thyself to the priest." "Nor want we skill or art from whence to raise Magnificence; and what can heaven show more?"
2.
To exhibit to the mental view; to tell; to disclose; to reveal; to make known; as, to show one's designs. "Shew them the way wherein they must walk." "If it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away."
3.
Specifically, to make known the way to (a person); hence, to direct; to guide; to asher; to conduct; as, to show a person into a parlor; to show one to the door.
4.
To make apparent or clear, as by evidence, testimony, or reasoning; to prove; to explain; also, to manifest; to evince; as, to show the truth of a statement; to show the causes of an event. "I 'll show my duty by my timely care."
5.
To bestow; to confer; to afford; as, to show favor. "Shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me."
To show forth, to manifest; to publish; to proclaim.
To show his paces, to exhibit the gait, speed, or the like; said especially of a horse.
To show off, to exhibit ostentatiously.
To show up, to expose. (Colloq.)


Show  v. i.  (past showed; past part. shown; pres. part. showing)  
1.
To exhibit or manifest one's self or itself; to appear; to look; to be in appearance; to seem. "Just such she shows before a rising storm." "All round a hedge upshoots, and shows At distance like a little wood."
2.
To have a certain appearance, as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear. "My lord of York, it better showed with you."
To show off, to make a show; to display one's self.





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"Show off" Quotes from Famous Books



... arm not long after this; it almost threw me into a fever. I was ashamed to have that doctor come, for they had told me what was the matter. It has always been my luck, children, if I ever tried to show off, to get nicely paid ...
— Aunt Madge's Story • Sophie May
... down stairs and found Paul at the door talking to a young officer, who slowly dismounted and lounged into the hall, conscious of his brilliant uniform—of his own physical capacity to show off any ...
— The Sowers • Henry Seton Merriman
... raight. I am only Babu showing off my English to you. All we Babus talk English to show off;' said Hurree, flinging his shoulder-cloth jauntily. 'As I was about to say, "Son of the Charm" means that you may be member of the Sat Bhai—the Seven Brothers, which is Hindi and Tantric. It is popularly supposed to be extinct Society, but I have written notes to show ...
— Kim • Rudyard Kipling
... adventurous bohemia of opera; in Rome, the splendor of a refined, artistic aristocracy in perpetual rivalry with that of Paris and London; and in Florence, an English nobility that had come in quest of sunlight and a chance to air its straw hats, show off the fair hair of its ladies, and chatter its own language in gardens where once upon a time the somber Dante dreamed and Boccaccio told his merry tales to drive ...
— The Torrent - Entre Naranjos • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... and some eccentric qualities. A young officer of a volunteer corps on duty in the place, very proud of his fresh uniform, had come to Mr. Shirra's church, and walked about as if looking for a seat, but in fact to show off his dress, which he saw was attracting attention from some of the less grave members of the congregation. He came to his place, however, rather quickly, on Mr. Shirra quietly remonstrating, "O man, will ye sit doun, and we'll see your new breeks when the kirk's dune." This same ...
— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay


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