- Transliteration: megalaucheo

- Phonetic: meg-al-ow-kheh'-o

- Definition:

1. to be grandiloquent

2. to boast great things, to bear one's self loftily in speech or action

- Origin: from a compound of G3173" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3173 and aucheo (to boast, akin to G837" class="dictionary-topic-link">G837 and G2744" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2744)

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: From a compound of G3173" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3173 and αὐχέω aucheō (to boast; akin to G837" class="dictionary-topic-link">G837 and G2744" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2744); to talk big that is be grandiloquent (arrogant egotistic): - boast great things.