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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To talk boastfully. See Synonyms at boast1.
  2. v. To assert boastfully.
  3. n. A boast.
  4. n. Arrogant or boastful speech or manner.
  5. n. Something boasted of.
  6. n. A braggart; a boaster.
  7. n. Games A card game similar to poker.
  8. adj. Exceptionally fine.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To use boastful language; speak vaingloriously of one's self or belongings; boast; vaunt: used absolutely, or followed by of, formerly sometimes by on: as, to brag of a good horse, or of a feat of arms.
  2. To sound, as a trumpet; blare; bray.
  3. To boast of.
  4. To blow (a trumpet).
  5. n. A boast or boasting; a vaunt; also, boastfulness.
  6. n. A thing to boast of; source of pride.
  7. n. A game of cards: same as poker.
  8. n. A bragger.
  9. Proud; boasting: as, “that bragge prescription,”
  10. Also used adverbially.

Wiktionary

  1. v. to boast
  2. n. The card game three card brag.
  3. adj. First-rate.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. 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.
  2. v. To boast of.
  3. n. A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretense or self glorification.
  4. n. The thing which is boasted of.
  5. n. A game at cards similar to bluff.
  6. adj. Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
  7. adv. Proudly; boastfully.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. exceptionally good
  2. n. an instance of boastful talk
  3. v. show off

Etymologies

  1. Middle English braggen, from brag, ostentatious.

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