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brag

1 of 3

noun

1
: a pompous or boastful statement
2
: arrogant talk or manner : cockiness
3

brag

2 of 3

verb

bragged; bragging

intransitive verb

: to talk boastfully
always bragging about his success

transitive verb

: to assert boastfully
bragged that she was the faster runner on her team
bragger noun
braggy adjective

brag

3 of 3

adjective

bragger; braggest
Choose the Right Synonym for brag

boast, brag, vaunt, crow mean to express pride in oneself or one's accomplishments.

boast often suggests ostentation and exaggeration

boasts of every trivial success

, but it may imply a claiming with proper and justifiable pride.

the town boasts one of the best museums in the area

brag suggests crudity and artlessness in glorifying oneself.

bragging of their exploits

vaunt usually connotes more pomp and bombast than boast and less crudity or naïveté than brag.

vaunted his country's military might

crow usually implies exultant boasting or bragging.

crowed after winning the championship

Example Sentences

Noun for all his brag about diving, he actually does very little he's an irritating brag whose sense of selfhood is defined by what he owns Verb After winning the race, she couldn't stop bragging. “I don't mean to brag,” he said, “but I'm an excellent cook.” He bragged that his daughter was the best student in her class. “I'm the fastest runner on the team,” she bragged. Adjective he did a really brag job on restoring that classic car See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Blanco is married and childless, but his paternalistic brag is that the company is his family. Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2022 The most-coveted, bestselling, and top-rated (no brag) hot rollers from BaByliss are on sale now for Amazon Prime Day. ELLE, 13 July 2022 While still plenty explicit, We Can’t Be Stopped served as another huge posture-shift for the group, eschewing rap’s typical boast-and-brag for the blues tradition of lamenting trauma caused by loose living. Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 28 June 2022 Quickly, though, the GeoGuessr video became about high scores—somewhere between a brag and, for a passionate and skeptical online community, proof. Max Norman, The New Yorker, 24 June 2022 The real question, though, is whether the town is ready for the inevitable influx of tourists and art lovers in search of their next geotag brag. Leena Kim, Town & Country, 14 June 2022 No child has ever read faster, which is not a brag. Elinor Lipman, Washington Post, 26 May 2022 Overnight a copy of your résumé with something clever, funny or interesting—photoshop yourself into a team photo, send your brag book, create a QR code with an introduction video or solve a problem, for example—make an effort. Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022 Bob McKillop, legendary coach of the giant-killing Davidson basketball team, slid a humble brag into his post-game words after his team’s 79-78 upset of No.10 Alabama. Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 22 Dec. 2021
Verb
CoffeeAndMilk Not to brag or anything, but my lips take up a decent amount of real estate on my face. Tatjana Freund, ELLE, 30 Aug. 2022 Just to brag a little bit about something, there’s a program called PGA Create that just started this year that Google helped finance. Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Aug. 2022 These are the same people who work extra hard to ensure others are aware of their vast knowledge base, using every opportunity to brag. Amy Blaschka, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022 To just love your body, any shape color form, its your body, love it, show it off, brag about it. Stephen Daw, Billboard, 28 June 2022 And, as if that wasn't enough, Guttman as a finance major can brag on his grandfather's business acumen. Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 17 June 2022 Armed with a rigorous ranking system, investors could make smarter decisions based on firms’ data practices: A VC fund might brag about only backing firms with Gold or better ratings, for instance. Yacov Salomon, Forbes, 5 May 2022 Lance Leipold wasn’t going to going to brag on that win without a little coercion. Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 14 July 2022 White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre took to Twitter to brag about falling gas prices while blasting oil refiners for making profits Thursday. Lindsay Kornick, Fox News, 22 July 2022
Adjective
This will also give you a brag bank to pull from when the interviewer asks you to articulate your strengths. Dominique Law, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021 The Wild Insulated Water Bottle Allow us to humble-brag about The Wild water bottle with the cool logo of the L.A. Times newsletter about the outdoors in Southern California. Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2021 Extremely familiar forays into bass-heavy brag rap, whooshing R&B, and Afrobeats break up the slog. Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2021 Lays down brag-worthy numbers, draws every eye, amazing value. K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 2 Sep. 2020 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Middle English, "ostentation, presumption," perhaps noun derivative of earlier brag, "ostentatious, spirited," of obscure origin

Verb

Middle English braggen, noun derivative of brag brag entry 1

Adjective

probably adjectival derivative of brag entry 1 or brag entry 2

First Known Use

Noun

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Verb

14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense

Adjective

1836, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of brag was in the 14th century

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