Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One given to loud, empty boasting; a bragger.
- adjective Boastful.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Boastful; vauntingly ostentatious.
- noun A boaster; a vaunting fellow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A boaster.
- adjective Boastful.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun someone who
boasts .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective exhibiting self-importance
- noun a very boastful and talkative person
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I loathe the idea of braggart look-at-how-we-give-to-the-poor stuff, but the object is to get Christmas gifts in some sort of perspective....would value other suggestions from blog readers onm how to do something to counter gross Christmas greed/consumerism without looking Cromwellian or smug.
auntie joanna writes Joanna Bogle 2006
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I'm a braggart, which is a surprise, as I thought for sure I'd get the hippie.....
some nice reviews kradical 2005
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Speaking by videophone in the Pima County Adult Detention Center, the woman prosecutors dubbed a braggart and a killer-who reportedly boasted she would "kick down doors and change America" with her border vigilante activities-maintained her innocence.
Crooks and Liars David Neiwert 2011
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At the risk (or guarantee) of sounding like a braggart, I pretty much knew these cookies would be a total hit.
Clinging Onto My Youth Sarah 2009
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To paraphrase Hemingway on "Huckleberry Finn," all baseball literature comes from one book by Ring Lardner, "You Know Me Al" 1916, the first-person account of the trials and tribulations of a shallow young bush-league braggart.
Taking Fiction Out to the Ballgame Allen Barra 2011
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The play starred Mark Rylance as Johnny "Rooster" Byron, a beer-gurgling, barnstorming braggart who lives in a caravan deep in the Wiltshire woods, harried on one side by council officials desperate to evict him, on the other by teenagers wanting drugs.
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Washington told Colonel John Stanwix, his military superior, that the captured ensign declared that the garrison at Fort Duquesne counted 600 French and 200 Indians; “I believe he is a Gasconian,” a braggart, Washington said.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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At the risk (or guarantee) of sounding like a braggart, I pretty much knew these cookies would be a total hit.
Archive 2009-04-01 Sarah 2009
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Walpole from then on ridiculed GW, calling him a fanfaron braggart, and saying that he soon “learned to blush for his rodomontade.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Stephen was also Scottish, thirty-three, a university-trained medical doctor, veteran of the Royal Navy, somewhat of a braggart, who made important friends when he set up practice in Virginia.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
sionnach commented on the word braggart
Art acquired purely for the bragging rights, such as Faberge eggs and Klimt paintings.
January 15, 2008
yarb commented on the word braggart
Citation on fribble.
October 10, 2008