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braggery|ˈbrægərɪ|
Also 6 bragerie, 7 braggry.
[f. prec. + -y; or a. F. braguerie.]
1. Bragging; vaunting speech.
c1571tr. Buchanan's Detect. Mary in Campbell Love-lett. Mary (1824) 142, I could rehearse his glorious vain braggeries in France. 1576Newton Lemnie's Complex. (1633) 197 It is a meere vanity and foolish braggry. 1830A. E. Bray Fitz of F. xxi. (1884) 172 Falsehood, braggery..a cruel heart, are fiends that walk in flesh and bones.
†2. Rabble. Obs. rare.
1548Hall Chron. (1809) 610 All the nobles of the Frenche courte were in garments of many colours, so that thei were not knowen from the braggery. 1577Holinshed Chron. III. 861/1 Vagabonds, plowmen, labourers, and of the bragerie, wagoners and beggers. |