Sekirov Dictionary

brag

/bɹæɡ/

adjective 2
noun 3
verb 2
adverb 1
forms 7
phrases 2

adjective2

Excellent; first-rate.
(no longer used) Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.

noun3

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A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.
- Caesar […] made not here his brag / Of "came", and "saw", and "overcame". — 1611
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Short for three card brag.
- our mixed companies here, which, if they happen to rise above bragg and whist, infallibly stop short of every thing either pleasing or instructive — 1752
•
The thing which is boasted of.
- Beauty is Nature's brag. — 1634

verb2

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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.
- to brag of one’s exploits, courage, or money
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(no longer used) To act in an arrogant or boastful manner.
- The dead mans corps hath made some Serpents weépe, / Such rewth may ryse in beasts of bloudy race: / And yet can man (which bragges aboue the rest) / Use wracke for rewth? can murder like him best? — 1575

adverb1

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(no longer used) Proudly; boastfully.
- Seest how brag yond bullock beare […]his pricked eares? — 1579

forms

bragged · bragging · brags · bragger · more brag · braggest · most brag

Phrases with brag

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