, 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
Verb The cock crowed as the sun began to rise. The boy crowed with delight. The rest of us were sick of hearing her crow about her success.
Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle English crowe, from Old English crāwe; akin to Old High German krāwa crow, Old English crāwan to crow
Verb
Middle English, from Old English crāwan
Noun (3)
translation of American French gens des Corbeaux "crow people," or names of similar meaning in the languages of Plains Indians adjacent to the Crows
Note: The reason for the application of words meaning "crow" or "raven" to the Crow by their neighbors is obscure. The Crow self-designation is apsâˑroˑke, traditionally rendered in English Absaroka, Apsaroka, with other variants; it is spelled Apsáalooke in the practical orthography used by Crow speakers. (The sound written l is pronounced as a rhotic tap by older speakers.) It is apparently a generalization of an earlier band name and has no etymology, though supposed translations of the word in the 19th and early 20th centuries frequently rendered it as "Crow." See Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 13, part 2 (Washington, 2001), pp. 714-15.
First Known Use
Noun (1)
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1