show away

English

Verb

show away (third-person singular simple present shows away, present participle showing away, simple past showed away, past participle shown away)

1. (now rare, archaic) To show off. [from 18th c.]
   • 1763, James Boswell, edited by Gordon Turnbull, London Journal 1762-1763, Penguin, published 2014, page 260:

     I behaved with sense and propriety, & did not attempt at all to show away […].