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brag
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Word definitions for brag in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brag \Brag\, adv. Proudly; boastfully. [Obs.] --Fuller.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., braggen "to make a loud sound," also "to talk boastfully," of obscure origin, perhaps related to bray of a trumpet, or related to the Middle English adjective brag "ostentatious, proud; spirited, brave" (early 14c.), which probably is from Celtic. ...
Usage examples of brag.
Bernard, and Return to Parma--A Letter from Hensiette--My Despair De La Haye Becomes Attached to Me--Unpleasant Adventure with an Actress and Its Consequences--I Turn a Thorough Bigot--Bavois--I Mystify a Bragging Officer.
Walton had been known to brag that her house was the best furnished in the street, and on this she was right When in 1916 and at the age of seventeen she had married Alee, he was just out of his time in the shipyard and owing to the war earning good money.
I am utterly sick and tired of the eternal brag and bombast around me.
The way-stew was nothing to brag about, but the vapors did wonders to clear her head, so that she felt reasonably alert when she helped herself to the last of the cauf and began to repack her hasty camp.
Well, in case you reside outside the land of purebred dogdom, let me welcome you to the shameless kingdom of brag, brag, brag.
Republican gubernatorial primary in 1994, one candidate bragged in a TV ad that as attorney general he had helped kill Spenkelink.
His trainer was satisfied, so far Micky was ahead on every round, and he began to think that Micky would take the gyppo out in five rounds as he had bragged.
But she has bragged to me of several single conquests, including Van Deef.
A Celt named Hool bragged that his second arrow at the Roman soldiers was notched and drawn before the first had even hit home.
Was he ever going to outlive the minor notoriety he had gained with Dave since his unfortunate episode of laddish bragging?
Veale slurred his words all over the road and bragged to Serge what a successful and important orthodontist he was.
The New Administration Back in Elmwood Springs, Dorothy made it a policy never to discuss politics on her show or certainly never to brag about the important people she knew but she was so happy for Betty Raye she just had to say something.
Charles Rembar, bragged in his book The End of Obscenity that he gave the activist judges on the Supreme Court the rationale to reverse convictions under the laws passed by legislatures, until they were no longer enforceable against obscenity.
San Reve, took that pertinacious beauty into his confidence, lying wherever it was inconvenient to tell the truth, and bragging always like a Cheyenne.
To others it is only an opportunity to catch up on fifteen weeks of lost sleep, to scarf down piles of good scran sink a few dozen pints, brag to their mates and thus avoid questioning themselves about why they feel so alienated from friends and family.