brag

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an instance of boastful talk

   My brag is worse than my fight.

2. 2
   verb

   to show off

   They bragged about their new car to the entire office.

3. 3
   noun

   A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.

   Caesar […] made not here his brag / Of "came", and "saw", and "overcame".

4. 4
   noun

   The thing which is boasted of.

   Beauty is Nature's brag.

5. 5
   noun

   Short for three card brag.

   our mixed companies here, which, if they happen to rise above bragg and whist, infallibly stop short of every thing either pleasing or instructive

6. 6
   verb

   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.

   to brag of one’s exploits, courage, or money

7. 7
   adj

   Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.

   a woundy, brag young fellow

8. 8
   adv

   Proudly; boastfully.

   Seest how brag yond bullock beare […]his pricked eares?

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”).