feeling boaby

9.9

To be very pleased and confident about yourself

idiom

Slang

: sentirse orgulloso

You could tell he was feeling boaby by the confident way he spoke.

Examples

She walked into the party feeling boaby after her promotion.
After winning the game, I was feeling boaby!
After the big win, he was feeling boaby and bragged to his friends.
She strutted into the room feeling boaby and ready to impress.
After winning the competition, he was feeling boaby and couldn't stop smiling.
She walked into the meeting feeling boaby, confident in her new ideas.
You could see he was feeling boaby as he shared his achievements with everyone.

Synonyms

boastful

vsfeeling boaby

7 3.7

Being too proud of achievements or skills in a way that annoys others

is a casual self-satisfied feeling not necessarily expressed by talking

proud as a peacock

vsfeeling boaby

Informal

1 7.4

Being very pleased with yourself and showing it in a loud, showy way

is a casual self-pleased feeling rather than a showy display

Antonyms

humble

222 2.8

Not proud and not thinking you are better than others

insecure

131 3.4

Not confident about yourself or your skills

How Confident

arrogant

260 4.5

cocky

Informal

99 4.2

smug

85 5.2

feeling boaby

Slang

9.9

self-assured

11 4.1

Surface Forms

feeling boaby positive

Morphology

feeling + boaby

Although 'feeling' is a transparent constituent, 'boaby' is not a recognized lexical item (no dictionary definition) and offers no interpretable meaning that can combine compositionally. Because the target sense 'confident/self‑satisfied' cannot be derived from the parts and appears to be slang or idiosyncratic, a B1 learner who knows the constituents would not be able to infer the meaning.

Etymology

Feeling boaby may come from an old word meaning pride; picture someone puffing out their chest and acting important. That's why feeling boaby now means 'feeling confident' or 'pleased with oneself'.