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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BRAG, v.i. [Eng. to brag.]
To boast; to display one's actions, merits or advantages ostentatiously; to tell boastful stories; followed by of; as, to brag of a good horse, or of a feat.
To brag on is vulgar; indeed the word itself is become low, and is not to be used in elegant composition.
BRAG, n. A boast, or boasting; ostentatious verbal display of one's deeds, or advantages; the thing boasted.
Spenser has used this word as an adverb for proudly.
BRAG, n. A game at cards.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: exceptionally good; "a boss hand at carpentry"; "his brag cornfield" [syn: boss, brag] n
1: an instance of boastful talk; "his brag is worse than his fight"; "whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade" [syn: brag, bragging, crow, crowing, vaporing, line-shooting, gasconade] v
1: show off [syn: boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English Date: 14th century 1. a pompous or boastful statement 2. arrogant talk or manner ; cockiness 3. braggart II. verb (bragged; bragging) Date: 14th century intransitive verb to talk boastfully <always bragging about his success> transitive verb to assert boastfully Synonyms: see boast • bragger noun • braggy adjective III. adjective (bragger; braggest) Date: 1836 first-rate

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v. (bragged, bragging) 1 intr. talk boastfully. 2 tr. boast about. --n. 1 a card-game like poker. 2 a boastful statement; boastful talk. Derivatives: bragger n. braggingly adv. Etymology: ME, orig. adj., = spirited, boastful: orig. unkn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Brag Brag, v. t. To boast of. [Obs.] --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Brag Brag, n. 1. A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretense or self glorification. C[ae]sar . . . made not here his brag Of ``came,'' and ``saw,'' and ``overcame.'' --Shak. 2. The thing which is boasted of. Beauty is Nature's brag. --Milton. 3. A game at cards similar to bluff. --Chesterfield.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Brag Brag, a. [See Brag, v. i.] Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited. [Archaic] A brag young fellow. --B. Jonson.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Brag Brag, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bragged; p. pr. & vb. n. Bragging.] [OE. braggen to resound, blow, boast (cf. F. braguer to lead a merry life, flaunt, boast, OF. brague merriment), from Icel. braka to creak, brak noise, fr. the same root as E. break; properly then, to make a noise, boast. ?95.] To talk about one's self, or things pertaining to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boastfully; to boast; -- often followed by of; as, to brag of one's exploits, courage, or money, or of the great things one intends to do. Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament. --Shak. Syn: To swagger; boast; vapor; bluster; vaunt; flourish; talk big.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Brag Brag, adv. Proudly; boastfully. [Obs.] --Fuller.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(brags, bragging, bragged) If you brag, you say in a very proud way that you have something or have done something. He's always bragging about his prowess as a cricketer... He'll probably go around bragging to his friends... The chairman never tires of bragging that he and Mr. McCormack are old friends. = boast VERB: V about n, V to n, V that, also V with quote, V [disapproval]

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

(megalaucheo, "proud brags"): Occurs only in the Apocrypha (2 Macc 15:32), not being sufficiently dignified to be given a place in the canonical Scriptures by the King James translators (compare Judith 16:5).

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. n. Boast, vaunt, gasconade, bluster, vapor, flourish, exalt one's self, magnify one's self, talk big. II. n. Boast, vaunt, gasconade, bluster, bravado, vaporing, blattering, braggadocio, great cry and little wool.

Moby Thesaurus

Captain Bobadil, Gascon, Texan, big mouth, blow, blower, blowhard, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, blusterer, boast, boaster, boastfulness, boasting, bombast, bounce, braggadocio, braggart, braggartism, bragging, bravado, bully, cock-a-doodle-doo, conceit, crow, draw the longbow, fanfaron, fanfaronade, flourish, gasbag, gasconade, gasconader, gasconism, hector, heroics, hot-air artist, intimidate, jactation, jactitation, miles gloriosus, mouth, out-herod Herod, prate, puff, rage, rant, rave, rodomontade, roister, rollick, show off, side, slang, speak for Buncombe, splutter, sputter, storm, strut, swagger, swashbuckle, talk big, trumpet, vanity, vapor, vaunt, vauntery, vaunting, windbag, windjammer, windy