| 单词 | brag and boast |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbrag and boast a. Arrogant or boastful language (in earlier examples usually in phrase brag and boast); boasting, boastful assertion. (Phrase French brag, common in 16th cent.; also used in sense 3.) ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun] yelpc888 yelpinga1050 roosingc1175 boastc1300 avauntment1303 avauntry1330 vauntingc1340 bragc1360 avauntingc1380 boastingc1380 avauntance1393 angarda1400 bragging1399 vaunta1400 crackingc1440 crackc1450 crowing1484 jactancea1492 vaunterya1492 bragancea1500 gloriation?1504 blasta1513 vousting1535 braggery?1571 jactation1576 self-boasting1577 thrasonism1596 braggartry1598 braggartism1601 jactancy1623 braggadocianism1624 blazing1628 jactitation1632 word-braving1642 rodomontadea1648 fanfaronade1652 superbiloquence1656 vapouring1656 rodomontading1661 blow1684 goster1703 gasconade1709 gasconading1709 vauntingness1727 braggadocioa1734 Gasconism1744 Gascoigny1754 braggade1763 gostering1763 penny trumpet1783 cockalorum?a1792 boastfulness1810 vauntage1818 bull-flesh1820 blowing1840 vauntiness1851 kompology1854 loud-mouthing1858 skite1860 gabbing1869 mouth1891 buck1895 skiting1916 boosterism1926 c1360 Know Thyself in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 132 Vr bost vr brag is sone ouerbide. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 427 [These words] haveþ more of brag and of boost. c1440 York Myst. xlvi. 225 His bragge and his boste is he besie to bid vs. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xi. vii. 127 With brag and bost [v.r. braik and boist], or wapynnys, he Me doith await. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xxiv. f. 53 Not makyng vauntes and braggues of their weorkes. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxxxix Melune..and diuerse other tounes, yelded and turned at a proude crake, or a Frenche bragge, without stroke striken. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) v. ii. 30 Cesars Thrasonicall bragge of I came, saw, and ouercome. View more context for this quotation 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison IV. 240 My uncle..sometimes reminds me of what he calls my former brags. 1877 M. Oliphant Makers of Florence (ed. 2) xv. 354 He has thus held his place..not without a certain brag of his strength. < as lemmas |
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