gosthering

Verb

gosther (third-person singular simple present gosthers, present participle gosthering, simple past and past participle gosthered)

1. (Ireland) To talk loudly and impudently; to boast or bluster.
   • [H]e was always talkin' one nonsinse or another; an' among the rest o' his fooleries, he purtinded not to b'lieve in the fairies, the Leprechauns, an' the Poocas, an' he evin sumtimes had the impedince to purtind to doubt o' ghosts, that every body b'lieves in, at any rate. Yit sum people used to...1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 376