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Definition of braggart in English: braggartnoun ˈbraɡɑːtˈbraɡətˈbræɡərt A person who boasts about their achievements or possessions. Example sentencesExamples - Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
- For example, if you know an arrogant person, don't just write him off as a swaggering braggart.
- Successful entrepreneurs are not just braggarts.
- Doris also ventures back into the troubled waters of romance, whether she's being fixed up by her sons with an egotistical lawman or giving a braggart his comeuppance.
- Why people would want to read the raving, uninformed postings of anonymous blowhards and braggarts for voyeuristic sport is beyond me.
- His males are braggarts whose emotions stay on the surface: if they have interior lives, Walsh isn't interested in them.
- He was a braggart and a poseur, who frequently tripped himself up by telling inconsistent versions of the same story.
- No, because if Todd is anything, he is a braggart.
- Are all fans from Philadelphia loud-mouthed braggarts?
- He is a charming braggart who through accessorizing makes his three uniform wardrobe look like twelve.
- They are the biggest braggarts in the bar, with the least to brag about.
- In addition, he showed how to decode body language: crossing one's legs when sitting was a sign of uneasiness, while standing with one's legs wide apart was the hallmark of a braggart.
- He, who's a braggart and a drunk and a rat and a scoundrel, at his death bed, says, I find Christ.
- This braggart weaves astonishing tales of cunning and will while stalking game, and even more preposterous stories of superhuman feats of boozing.
- He is a braggart with an ego so inflated that he often speaks of himself in the third person.
- Since Monday the 8th was a holiday, golfers from the Three Sisters gathered at Siam on Tuesday the 9th to see who would be the braggart for the week.
- Ronnie was a bully and a braggart, and the fact he was bright and entertaining did not mitigate the fact he was a murderer.
- I suppose not, although quite frankly I never liked the braggart.
- Odysseus was a braggart and a poor winner who couldn't keep his big mouth shut and got punished by the gods for it.
- Most of the soldiers were a dull lot, either sullen and silent, not wishing to be where they were, or braggarts, constantly telling all who would listen of their strength and bravery.
Synonyms boaster, brag, bragger, show-off, blusterer, trumpeter, swaggerer, poser, poseur, poseuse, peacock, egotist, self-publicist informal blowhard, big mouth, big-head, bag of wind, windbag, gasbag, loudmouth, bull-shooter, swank, swanker Australian/New Zealand big-noter North American informal showboat Australian/New Zealand informal skite British informal, dated swankpot vulgar slang bullshitter archaic blower, bouncer, shaker, puff, rodomont rare braggadocio, gasconader, fanfaronade, attitudinizer
Origin Late 16th century: from French bragard, from braguer 'to brag'. Rhymes faggot (US fagot), maggot Definition of braggart in US English: braggartnounˈbraɡərtˈbræɡərt A person who boasts about achievements or possessions. Example sentencesExamples - I suppose not, although quite frankly I never liked the braggart.
- Odysseus was a braggart and a poor winner who couldn't keep his big mouth shut and got punished by the gods for it.
- In addition, he showed how to decode body language: crossing one's legs when sitting was a sign of uneasiness, while standing with one's legs wide apart was the hallmark of a braggart.
- Most of the soldiers were a dull lot, either sullen and silent, not wishing to be where they were, or braggarts, constantly telling all who would listen of their strength and bravery.
- Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
- Doris also ventures back into the troubled waters of romance, whether she's being fixed up by her sons with an egotistical lawman or giving a braggart his comeuppance.
- This braggart weaves astonishing tales of cunning and will while stalking game, and even more preposterous stories of superhuman feats of boozing.
- No, because if Todd is anything, he is a braggart.
- He, who's a braggart and a drunk and a rat and a scoundrel, at his death bed, says, I find Christ.
- Since Monday the 8th was a holiday, golfers from the Three Sisters gathered at Siam on Tuesday the 9th to see who would be the braggart for the week.
- His males are braggarts whose emotions stay on the surface: if they have interior lives, Walsh isn't interested in them.
- Successful entrepreneurs are not just braggarts.
- They are the biggest braggarts in the bar, with the least to brag about.
- Ronnie was a bully and a braggart, and the fact he was bright and entertaining did not mitigate the fact he was a murderer.
- He is a charming braggart who through accessorizing makes his three uniform wardrobe look like twelve.
- He is a braggart with an ego so inflated that he often speaks of himself in the third person.
- He was a braggart and a poseur, who frequently tripped himself up by telling inconsistent versions of the same story.
- For example, if you know an arrogant person, don't just write him off as a swaggering braggart.
- Are all fans from Philadelphia loud-mouthed braggarts?
- Why people would want to read the raving, uninformed postings of anonymous blowhards and braggarts for voyeuristic sport is beyond me.
Synonyms boaster, brag, bragger, show-off, blusterer, trumpeter, swaggerer, poser, poseur, poseuse, peacock, egotist, self-publicist
Origin Late 16th century: from French bragard, from braguer ‘to brag’. |