[syn: boastful, braggart(a), bragging(a), braggy, big, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandizing, self-aggrandising]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
Brags of his substance, not of ornament. --Shak.
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Syn: To swagger; boast; vapor; bluster; vaunt; flourish; talk
big.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
bragging
adj 1: exhibiting self-importance; "big talk" [syn: boastful,
braggart(a), bragging(a), braggy, big,
cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandizing, self-
aggrandising]
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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "bragging":
Gascon, bluster, boast, boastful, boastfulness, boasting, bombast,
brag, braggadocio, braggart, braggartism, bravado, conceit,
conceited, fanfaron, fanfaronade, fanfaronading, gasconade,
gasconading, gasconism, heroics, jactation, jactitation,
rodomontade, self-advertising, self-applauding, self-flattering,
self-glorious, self-lauding, self-vaunting, side, swagger,
thrasonic, thrasonical, vain, vainglorious, vanity, vaporing,
vaunt, vauntery, vaunting