brag

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  1. intransitive verb To talk boastfully. See Synonyms at boast1.
  2. transitive verb To assert boastfully.
  3. noun A boast.
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  • Oh rather say One went to brag, the other to pray One stands up close, and treads on high Where the other dares not lend his eye One nearer to God's altar trod The other to the altar's God. —  England's Antiphon
  • Thinking that I spoke thus only to brag, and not because it was the truth, he made the Cardinal of Lorraine repeat what he had said; but I explained my reasons so fully and clearly, that the Cardinal perceived my drift; he then advised the King to let me labour as much or little as I liked. —  The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
  • If I may brag, my featured article is probably the least political (if the silliest) of them all. —  Say No to Crack
  • I'm not saying this to brag, as it has nothing to do with ego. —  alex hillman writes here
  • So Bill climbed the Northern Fury And they mangled up the air Till a native of Missouri Would have owned his brag was fair Though the plunges kep' him reelin And the wind it flapped his shirt Loud above the hawse's squealin We could hear our friend assert I'm the one to take such rakin's as a joke Some one hand me up the makin's of a smoke If you think my fame needs bright'nin Why, I'll rope a streak of lightnin And I'll cinch 'im up and spur 'im till he's broke. —  Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English braggen, from brag, ostentatious.

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  1. from Middle English braggen, bragen, from Old French braguer, flaunt, brave, brag, later brague, pleasure, amusement, bragard, gallant, gay (see braggart); of Celtic origin: cf. Welsh bragio, brag, also brac, boastful, = Irish bragaim, I boast, = Breton braga, flaunt, strut, walk pompously, wear fine clothes; related to Gaelic bragh, a burst, explosion, and thus ult. to English break, Icelandic braka, creak, etc. Cf. crack, boast, as related to crack, break with a noise. See bray, brawl, and brave.
  2. from Middle English brag; from the verb.
  3. from Middle English brag; from the noun.
 

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