braggart

• “I loathe the idea of braggart look-at-how-we-give-to-the-poor stuff, but the object is to get Christmas gifts in some sort of perspective....would value other suggestions from blog readers onm how to do something to counter gross Christmas greed/consumerism without looking Cromwellian or smug.”

  auntie joanna writes

• “I'm a braggart, which is a surprise, as I thought for sure I'd get the hippie.....”

  some nice reviews

• “Speaking by videophone in the Pima County Adult Detention Center, the woman prosecutors dubbed a braggart and a killer-who reportedly boasted she would "kick down doors and change America" with her border vigilante activities-maintained her innocence.”

  Crooks and Liars

• “The play starred Mark Rylance as Johnny "Rooster" Byron, a beer-gurgling, barnstorming braggart who lives in a caravan deep in the Wiltshire woods, harried on one side by council officials desperate to evict him, on the other by teenagers wanting drugs.”

  The Guardian: Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre

• “Washington told Colonel John Stanwix, his military superior, that the captured ensign declared that the garrison at Fort Duquesne counted 600 French and 200 Indians; “I believe he is a Gasconian,” a braggart, Washington said.”

  Simon & Schuster: George Washington’s First War

• “Walpole from then on ridiculed GW, calling him a fanfaron braggart, and saying that he soon “learned to blush for his rodomontade.””

  Simon & Schuster: George Washington’s First War

• “Stephen was also Scottish, thirty-three, a university-trained medical doctor, veteran of the Royal Navy, somewhat of a braggart, who made important friends when he set up practice in Virginia.”

  Simon & Schuster: George Washington’s First War

• “To paraphrase Hemingway on "Huckleberry Finn," all baseball literature comes from one book by Ring Lardner, "You Know Me Al" 1916, the first-person account of the trials and tribulations of a shallow young bush-league braggart.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Taking Fiction Out to the Ballgame

• “At the risk (or guarantee) of sounding like a braggart, I pretty much knew these cookies would be a total hit.”

  Archive 2009-04-01

• “Archie Coleman, who filled his quarters with Turkish antiques and tended to be a braggart, was put in charge of overseeing another chain of agents code-named “Cereus,” after a night-blooming cactus in the American West.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wild Bill Donovan

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