brag

sustantivo

1. 1

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

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

2. 2

   The thing which is boasted of.

   Beauty is Nature's brag.

   You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.

3. 3

   Variante de three card bragShort 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

verbo

1. 1

   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

   Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, / Brags of his substance, not of ornament. / Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade

2. 2

   obsoletoTo act in an arrogant or boastful manner.

   The dead mans corps hath made ſome Serpents weépe, / Such rewth may ryſe in beaſts of bloudy race: / And yet can man (which bragges aboue the reſt) / Uſe wracke for rewth? can murder like him beſt?

adjetivo

1. 1

   Excellent; first-rate.

2. 2

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

   a woundy, brag young fellow

adverbio

1. 1

   obsoletoProudly; boastfully.

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

Formas

plural

brags

comparativo

bragger, more brag

superlativo

braggest, most brag

pasado

bragged

participio

bragged

gerundio

bragging

3.ª persona del singular

brags