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单词 brag
释义
brag
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vnadj

When you're bragging, you're boasting. If you can't stop talking about your fancy new shoes, that's bragging.
Ever notice how some people are full of themselves and constantly telling you about the great things they've done? Those folks like to brag. Bragging is a verbal kind of showing off. We all do it sometimes, and it's almost always annoying when other people do it. A specific boast can be called a brag. Athletes often brag before big games. But only the winners can brag after, because they backed up their words.
WORD FAMILY
brag: bragged, bragger, bragging, braggy, bragly, brags+/bragger: braggers/bragging: braggingly, braggings
USAGE EXAMPLES
He still attended games, and bragged about the school on the NFL Network, where he is a color commentator.
The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017)
Of course, his entire political career is founded on the “birther” lie, which he still brags about.
Salon(Jan 01, 2017)
“I’m not bragging at all, you will never in this world see a boat like this one.”
Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017)
1v show off
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
blow, bluster, boast, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt
puff
speak in a blustering or scornful manner
crow, gloat, triumph
dwell on with satisfaction
congratulate, preen
pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement
amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate
to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
2n an instance of boastful talk
his brag is worse than his fight
Syn|Hyper
bragging, crow, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing
boast, boasting, jactitation, self-praise
speaking of yourself in superlatives
3adj exceptionally good
his brag cornfield
Syn
boss
superior
of high or superior quality or performance
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