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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | blow, bluster, boast, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
| Type of | amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate, hyperbolise |
| Has types | gloat, triumph, crow, puff |
| Derivation | braggart, bragger |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bragging, crow, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
| Type of | boast, boasting, jactitation, self-praise |
| Derivation | braggy |
his brag is worse than his fight.
Examples of brag
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The stocks that fund managers brag about owning when they're at the squash club.
From the online.wsj.com
Opel and its sister company, Vauxhall Motors Ltd., have successes to brag about.
From the businessweek.com
Root for a level of shopping extravagance, so we can brag of growing confidence.
From the ocregister.com
Locals like to brag that their southeast Florida coastal town is a hidden jewel.
From the orlandosentinel.com
They brag about their national rankings, their sports teams and their new dorms.
From the chron.com
Iowa-NU would be about which school's corn farmers could brag for the next year.
From the omaha.com
Bodybuilders brag on Web sites and Wikipedia about closing the $20 product shut.
From the businessweek.com
Anyone can submit a letter and later brag to friends about its short-lived fame.
From the omaha.com
The state of the art for treatment of mental illnesses is nothing to brag about.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
- An instance of boastful talk; "his brag is worse than his fight"; "whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade"
- Boast: show off
- Boss: exceptionally good; "a boss hand at carpentry"; "his brag cornfield"
- (bragging) boastful: exhibiting self-importance; "big talk"
- A brag is a creature from the folklore of Northumberland and Durham that usually took the form of a horse or donkey. ...
- (Bragging) Boasting is the act of making an ostentatious speech. It is considered a vice by such major religious groups as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Boasting has also been studied by such evolutionary psychologists as Robert Wright.
- The card game three card brag; to boast; First-rate
- (Bragging) in the context of social networking sites or personal blogs, announcing that one has committed some illegal or generally objectionable act, or has a propensity to engage in that act, or refuses to accept some responsibility normally socially expected, in order to poke fun at or rebel ...
- Bragging is a kind of lie in which a person tells something about himself or anything, which is not true, in an effort to build up a reputation, such as saying "I own a billion dollar car and house," in which they actually don't.
