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brag

  [brag] verb, bragged, brag⋅ging, noun, adjective
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–verb (used without object)
1. to use boastful language; boast: He bragged endlessly about his high score.
–verb (used with object)
2. to boast of: He bragged that he had won.
–noun
3. a boast or vaunt.
4. a thing to boast of.
5. a boaster.
6. an old English card game similar to poker.
–adjective
7. Archaic. unusually fine; first-rate.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME brag (n.) ostentation, arrogance, braggen (v.); of obscure orig.

Related forms:
brag⋅ging⋅ly, adverb
bragless, adjective

Synonyms:
1. See boast 1 .

Antonyms:
2. depreciate.
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brag   (brāg)   
v.   bragged, brag·ging, brags

v.   intr.
To talk boastfully. See Synonyms at boast1.
v.   tr.
To assert boastfully.
n.  

  1. A boast.

  2. Arrogant or boastful speech or manner.

  3. Something boasted of.

  4. A braggart; a boaster.

  5. Games A card game similar to poker.

adj.   brag·ger, brag·gest
Exceptionally fine.

[Middle English braggen, from brag, ostentatious.]
brag'ger n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

brag 
c.1360, braggen, origin obscure, perhaps related to bray of a trumpet. Other sources suggest O.N. bragr "the best, the toast (of anything)," also "poetry." Braggadocio is Spenser's coinage, 1590, from brag, with augmentative ending by analogy to the It. words then in vogue. Braggart (1577) though influenced by brag is a different word, from M.Fr. braguer "to flaunt, brag," perhaps originally "to show off clothes, especially breeches," from brague "breeches" (see bracket). There may be an element of codpiece-flaunting in all this.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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