Brag: Definition and part of speech

Brag

  1. adv. Proudly; boastfully.
  2. v. i. To talk about one’s self, or things pertaining to one’s self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boastfully; to boast; — often followed by of; as, to brag of one’s exploits, courage, or money, or of the great things one intends to do.
  3. v. t. To boast of.
  4. n. A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretense or self glorification.
  5. n. The thing which is boasted of.
  6. n. A game at cards similar to bluff.
  7. v. i. Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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