a. dial. (chiefly Sc.). Also 9 Sc. vanty. [f. VAUNT v.] Boastful, proud, vain.
1724. Ramsay, Tea-t. Misc. (1733), I. 21. Altho’ my father was nae laird, ’Tis daffin to be vaunty, He keepit ay a good kail-yard.
1789. Burns, To Dr. Blacklock, i. Wow, but your letter made me vauntie!
1821. [see VAUDY a.].
1842. Louisa S. Costello, Pilgr. Auvergne, II. 120. Certainly he had reason to be ‘vaunty,’ for his grand new house was worthy of a more populous town than Thiers.
1875. Porson, Quaint Words S. Worcs., 19. A vaunty dame … proud woman.
