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bragging::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | brag, crow, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
| Type of | boast, boasting, jactitation, self-praise |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | big, boastful, braggart, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
Examples of bragging
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Toyota and GM took the battle for electric-car bragging rights public last week.
From the freep.com
I heard Abby bragging to her little daycare friend how she has two toothbrushes.
From the ocregister.com
Beyond that, however the bragging rights could not carry their customary weight.
From the guardian.co.uk
It's suggests swings, shifts, dips and lurches in dominance and bragging rights.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The bragging rights in the outer solar system may have shifted over the weekend.
From the newscientist.com
Things were going swimmingly until I started bragging about my magnificent wall.
From the al.com
There's nothing more important on our agendas than bragging about our grandkids.
From the kentucky.com
State prosecutor Jay Hodge said Ryan Schallenberger may have just been bragging.
From the thestate.com
Winners will get a coveted Loop T-shirt and the bragging rights that go with it.
From the washingtonpost.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.
