brag

Meaning

Noun

1. A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.
2. The thing which is boasted of.
3. The card game three card brag.

Verb

1. 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.
2. To boast of something.

Adj

1. Excellent; first-rate.
2. Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.

Adv

proudly; boastfully

Synonyms

boast

vaunt

swagger

talk big

bluster

show off

praise oneself

crow

gasconade

boasting

exaggerate

swash

bragging

blow

braggadocio

blow one’s own trumpet

crowing

vaporing

boss

shoot a line

show-off

swank

gas

line-shooting

tout

blow about

flaunt

self-praise

jactitation

display

boaster

gloat

become vain

gob

put on airs

braggart

rodomontade

proud of

be courteous

select

self-esteem

slap-up

splendid

admirable

stunning

super

superior

swaggerer

swashbuckling

fancy oneself

triumph

😤

vainglory

vapour

be arrogant

big mouth

big talk

boast of

pass gas

swagger about

tall talk

be considerate

become conceited

blow along

tall tale

be puffed up

self-regard

crack

know only how to talk

play the braggart

extraordinaire

jimhickey

be affected, vain

sterling

avowal

bang-up

be proud

blabber

bluff

blusterer

boastful

boost

bray

break wind

claim

cock

cockiness

conceited

copesetic

corking

crackerjack

cracking

dandy

dignity

excellent

exhibit

extol

fanfaronade

feature

flatulence

flourish

golden

hubbub

jimdandy

keen

marvelous

nifty

nonsense

outstanding

prate

pride

rant

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɹæɡ/

Etymology

From Middle English braggen (“to make a loud noise; to speak boastfully”) of unknown 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”).