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Brag

//bɹæɡ// adj, adv, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Excellent; first-rate.
  2. 2
    Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited. archaic

    "a woundy, brag young fellow"

Adjective
  1. 1
    exceptionally good wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    Proudly; boastfully. obsolete

    "Seest how brag yond bullock beare […]his pricked eares?"

Noun
  1. 1
    A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification. countable, uncountable

    "Caesar […] made not here his brag / Of "came", and "saw", and "overcame"."

  2. 2
    an instance of boastful talk wordnet
  3. 3
    The thing which is boasted of. countable, uncountable

    "Beauty is Nature's brag."

  4. 4
    Short for three card brag. abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable

    "our mixed companies here, which, if they happen to rise above bragg and whist, infallibly stop short of every thing either pleasing or instructive"

Verb
  1. 1
    To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done; often as an attempt to popularize oneself. intransitive, often, with-of

    "to brag of one’s exploits, courage, or money"

  2. 2
    show off wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English braggen (“to make a loud noise; to speak boastfully”) of uncertain origin. Possibly related to the Middle English adjective brag (“prideful; spirited”), which is probably of Celtic origin; or from Old Norse bragr (“best; foremost; poetry”); or through Old English from Old Norse braka (“to creak”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English braggen (“to make a loud noise; to speak boastfully”) of uncertain origin. Possibly related to the Middle English adjective brag (“prideful; spirited”), which is probably of Celtic origin; or from Old Norse bragr (“best; foremost; poetry”); or through Old English from Old Norse braka (“to creak”).

Etymology 3

From Middle English braggen (“to make a loud noise; to speak boastfully”) of uncertain origin. Possibly related to the Middle English adjective brag (“prideful; spirited”), which is probably of Celtic origin; or from Old Norse bragr (“best; foremost; poetry”); or through Old English from Old Norse braka (“to creak”).

Etymology 4

From Middle English braggen (“to make a loud noise; to speak boastfully”) of uncertain origin. Possibly related to the Middle English adjective brag (“prideful; spirited”), which is probably of Celtic origin; or from Old Norse bragr (“best; foremost; poetry”); or through Old English from Old Norse braka (“to creak”).

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