The word humblebrag was coined in 2011 by American comedian Harris Wittels, who set up the corresponding Twitter account and currently compiles a monthly top ten ranking of the most shameless humblebrags. The American Dialect Society voted humblebrag its ‘most useful’ word of the year for 2011, and derived forms humblebrag as intransitive verb, and noun humblebragger (a person who regularly does this), have also begun to appear.

The word humblebrag was coined in 2011 by American comedian Harris Wittels, who set up the corresponding Twitter account and currently compiles a monthly top ten ranking of the most shameless humblebrags. The American Dialect Society voted humblebrag its ‘most useful’ word of the year for 2011, and derived forms humblebrag as intransitive verb, and noun humblebragger (a person who regularly does this), have also begun to appear.