brag

/bræg/

/bræg/

Other forms: bragging; bragged; brags; bragly

When you're bragging, you're boasting. If you can't stop talking about your fancy new shoes, that's bragging.

Ever notice how some people are full of themselves and constantly telling you about the great things they've done? Those folks like to brag. Bragging is a verbal kind of showing off. We all do it sometimes, and it's almost always annoying when other people do it. A specific boast can be called a brag. Athletes often brag before big games. But only the winners can brag after, because they backed up their words.

Definitions of brag

1. verb

   show off
   synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt

   types:

   puff

   speak in a blustering or scornful manner

   crow, gloat, triumph

   dwell on with satisfaction

   congratulate, preen

   pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement

   type of:

   amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate

   to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
2. noun

   an instance of boastful talk
   “his brag is worse than his fight”

   synonyms: bragging, crow, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing

   type of:

   boast, boasting, jactitation, self-praise

   speaking of yourself in superlatives
3. adjective

   exceptionally good
   “his brag cornfield”

   synonyms: boss

   superior

   of high or superior quality or performance