adj
Meaning 1
Excellent; first-rate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
brag
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /bɹæɡ/
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British, Northern-England, Southern, Standard: /bɹaɡ/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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Scotland, Wales: /bɾaɡ/
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Australian: /bɹæːɡ/
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New-Zealand: /bɹɛɡ/
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/bɹeɪ̯ɡ/ Upper Midwestern US, Northwestern US, Canada
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rhymes with -æɡ
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adj
Meaning 2
Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 3
Proudly; boastfully.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
The thing which is boasted of.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
Short for three card brag.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done; often as an attempt to popularize oneself.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, often, with-of
Examples
- to brag of one’s exploits, courage, or money
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: boast, beat one's chest
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 8
To act in an arrogant or boastful manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 9
exceptionally good
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a boss hand at carpentry
- his brag cornfield
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: boss
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 10
an instance of boastful talk
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- his brag is worse than his fight
- whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bragging, crow, crowing, vaporing, line-shooting, gasconade
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: boast, boasting, self-praise, jactitation
verb
Meaning 11
show off
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify
Narrower terms: puff, gloat, triumph, crow
History
Etymology
From Middle English braggen (“to make a loud noise; to speak boastfully”) of uncertain origin. Possibly related to the Middle English adjective brag (“prideful; spirited”), which is probably of Celtic origin; or from Old Norse bragr (“best; foremost; poetry”); or through Old English from Old Norse braka (“to creak”).
Across languages
Translations
84 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- French: brag — card game
- Albanian: krenohem — to boast
- Arabic: تَبَاهَى (tabāhā) — to boast
- Azerbaijani: öyünmək — to boast
- Azerbaijani: güvənmək — to boast
- Azerbaijani: lovğalanmaq — to boast
- Azerbaijani: maxtanmaq — to boast
- Bulgarian: хваля се (hvalja se) — to boast
- Bulgarian: перча се (perča se) — to boast
- Catalan: gallejar — to boast
- Catalan: fer el gallet — to boast
- Catalan: vantar-se — to boast
- Catalan: presumir — to boast
- Chinese Mandarin: 吹牛 (chuīniú) — to boast
- Chinese Mandarin: 吹噓 /吹嘘 (chuīxū) — to boast
- Chinese Mandarin: 自誇 /自夸 (zìkuā) — to boast
- Czech: chvástat se — to boast
- Danish: prale — to boast
- Danish: blære sig — to boast
- Dutch: opscheppen — to boast
- Esperanto: fanfaroni — to boast
- Finnish: kerskailla — to boast
- Finnish: kerskua — to boast
- Finnish: rehennellä — to boast
- Finnish: leuhkia — to boast
- French: fanfaronner — to boast
- French: se vanter — to boast
- German: angeben — to boast
- German: prahlen — to boast
- Ancient Greek: καυχάομαι (kaukháomai) — to boast
- Ancient Greek: κομπάζω (kompázō) — to boast
- Ancient Greek: ἀλαζονεύομαι (alazoneúomai) — to boast
- Hungarian: dicsekszik — to boast
- Hungarian: henceg — to boast
- Hungarian: nagyzol — to boast
- Hungarian: kérkedik — to boast
- Hungarian: hetvenkedik — to boast
- Hungarian: felvág — to boast
- Hungarian: hivalkodik — to boast
- Ingrian: kiissellä — to boast
- Irish: braigeáil — to boast
- Italian: vantarsi — to boast
- Japanese: 自慢する (jiman suru) — to boast
- Japanese: 力む (rikimu) — to boast
- Korean: 자랑하다 (jaranghada) — to boast
- Korean: 나대다 (nadaeda) — to boast
- Latin: glorior — to boast
- Malayalam: പൊങ്ങച്ചം പറയുക (poṅṅaccaṁ paṟayuka) — to boast
- Malayalam: വീമ്പ് പറയുക (vīmpŭ paṟayuka) — to boast
- Māori: whakatāwāhi — to boast
- Māori: whakameremere — to boast
- Norwegian Bokmål: skryte — to boast
- Old English: ġielpan — to boast
- Persian: لافیدن (lâfidan) — to boast
- Polish: przechwalać się — to boast
- Polish: chełpić się — to boast
- Portuguese: gabar-se — to boast
- Portuguese: vangloriar-se — to boast
- Romanian: lăuda — to boast
- Russian: хва́статься (xvástatʹsja) — to boast
- Russian: хвалиться (xvalitʹsja) — to boast
- Serbo-Croatian: хвалити се — to boast
- Serbo-Croatian: хвалисати се — to boast
- Serbo-Croatian: хвастати се — to boast
- Serbo-Croatian: hvaliti se — to boast
- Serbo-Croatian: hvalisati se — to boast
- Serbo-Croatian: hvastati se — to boast
- Sicilian: spacchiàrisi — to boast
- Sicilian: fari u sbregs — to boast
- Sicilian: fari u sbrècchisi — to boast
- Slovak: vychvaľovať sa — to boast
- Slovak: chvastať sa — to boast
- Spanish: fanfarronear — to boast
- Spanish: jactarse — to boast
- Spanish: echarse flores — to boast
- Swedish: skryta — to boast
- Telugu: గప్పాలు (gappālu) — to boast
- Turkish: böbürlenmek — to boast
- Turkish: iftihar etmek — to boast
- Turkish: övünmek — to boast
- Ottoman Turkish: قبارمق (kabarmak) — to boast
- Ottoman Turkish: صاتمق (satmak) — to boast
- Ukrainian: хвали́тися (xvalýtysja) — to boast
- Zhuang: gangjmboengx — to boast