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- And so ends another hoary tradition, impaled by a braggart.
- Others say he is a two-faced braggart who bungled a chance to tackle pressing economic and social problems.
- But that doesn't make the colleague a braggart who doesn't know her stuff.
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braggart
1570s, from Fr. bragard (16c.), with pejorative ending (see -ard) + 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
EXPANDin all this. The word in English at least has been influenced by brag, even if, as some claim, it is unrelated to it.
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