Definitions
To boast or speak proudly about something.
Word origin
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”).
Used in a sentence
“Caesar […] made not here his brag / Of "came", and "saw", and "overcame".”
“Beauty is Nature's brag.”
Comus“our mixed companies here, which, if they happen to rise above bragg and whist, infallibly stop short of every thing either pleasing or instructive”
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