Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Boastful.

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  • adjective Like a braggart; boastful.

Etymologies

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braggart +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • -- the veteran collector grows young again in thinking upon the valour he then exhibited; and the juvenile collector talks "braggartly" of other times -- which he calls the golden days of the bibliomania -- when he reflects upon his lusty efforts in securing an _Exemplar

    Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

  • On his big military map of that region (it is on the western edge of the Argonne) Foch would show his students how the Prussians, Hessians and some Austrian troops; under the Duke of Brunswick, crossed the French frontier on August 19 and came swaggering toward Paris, braggartly announcing their intentions of “celebrating” in Paris in September.

    Foch the Man Laughlin, Clara E 1918

  • Daniel stood by, with arms akimbo, his booted legs braggartly straddled and his freckled face primed with an intolerant grin at our recent efforts.

    Desert Dust J. Clinton Shepherd 1911

  • V. i.45 (123,6) A beggarly account of empty boxes] Dr. Warburton would read, a _braggartly_ account; but _beggarly_ is probably right: if the

    Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746

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