brag

v., bragged, brag·ging, brags.

v.intr.

To talk boastfully. See synonyms at boast¹.

v.tr.

To assert boastfully.

n.

1. A boast.
2. Arrogant or boastful speech or manner.
3. Something boasted of.
4. A braggart; a boaster.
5. Games. A card game similar to poker.

adj., brag·ger, brag·gest.

Exceptionally fine.

[Middle English braggen, from brag, ostentatious.]

bragger brag'ger n.

verb

To talk with excessive pride: boast, crow, gasconade, rodomontade, vaunt. Informal blow. See praise/blame.

noun

1. An act of boasting: boast, braggadocio, fanfaronade, gasconade, rodomontade, vaunt. Informal blow. See praise/blame.
2. One given to boasting: boaster, braggadocio, braggart, bragger, vaunter. Informal blowhard. Slang blower. See praise/blame.

adjective

Exceptionally good of its kind: ace, banner, blue-ribbon, capital, champion, excellent, fine, first-class, first-rate, prime, quality, splendid, superb, superior, terrific, tiptop, top. Informal A-one, bully, dandy, great, swell, topflight, topnotch. Slang boss. Chiefly British tophole. See good/bad.

v

Definition: talk boastingly
Antonyms: be modest, be quiet, deprecate

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A shape-changing bogey in Northumberland and Durham. Its favourite form was that of a donkey or a horse, to tempt people into mounting it, and then throw them into a pond or a gorsebush and run off ‘nickering and laughing’ (Wright, English Dialect Dictionary, citing a source from 1843). One localized at Picktree could also appear as a calf wearing a neckerchief, a headless man, and, on one occasion, as four men carrying a white sheet; one at Humbleknowe was never seen, but made hideous noises in the night (Henderson, 1866: 233; Brockie, 1886: 52-5).

Quotes:

"Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." - Miguel De Cervantes

"If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums." - Samuel Johnson

"If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself." - Henry David Thoreau

Dansk (Danish)
v. intr. - prale
v. tr. - prale af, prale med
n. - praleri, skryden
adj. - som er værd at prale af

Nederlands (Dutch)
opscheppen, bluffen (kaartspel), grootspraak, bluf (bij kaartspel)

Français (French)
v. intr. - se glorifier, se targuer, se vanter
v. tr. - se vanter
n. - fanfaronnade
adj. - fanfaron, vaniteux

Deutsch (German)
v. - aufschneiden, angeben
n. - Angeberei, Angeber, Aufschneider
adj. - (ehem.) prächtig, erstklassig

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - καυχιέμαι, κοκορεύομαι
n. - κομπασμός, καυχησιολογία

Italiano (Italian)
vantarsi, vanteria

Português (Portuguese)
v. - gabar-se
n. - jactância (f)

Русский (Russian)
хвастаться, хвастовство

Español (Spanish)
v. intr. - jactarse, alardear
v. tr. - jactarse, alardear
n. - jactancia, alardeo
adj. - jactancia, alardeo

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - skryta, skrävla, bravera
n. - skryt, skrävel

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
吹牛, 自夸, 自吹, 吹嘘说, 自夸说, 夸耀, 吹牛的人, 精神饱满的, 自负的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. intr. - 吹牛, 自誇, 自吹
v. tr. - 吹噓說, 自誇說, 誇耀
n. - 吹牛, 吹牛的人
adj. - 精神飽滿的, 自負的

한국어 (Korean)
v. intr. - 자랑하다, 허풍 떨다
v. tr. - ~을 자랑하다
n. - 자랑 , 허풍선이
adj. - 멋진, 일류의

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 自慢する
n. - 自慢, 自慢話

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) تفاخر, تبجح (الاسم) متفاخر‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. intr. - ‮התרברב, התפאר‬
v. tr. - ‮התרברב, התפאר‬
n. - ‮דברי רהב, משחק קלפים דומה לפוקר‬
adj. - ‮מתפאר, מתרברב‬

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