单词 | brag |
释义 | brag (once / 1425 pages) 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 FAMILYbrag: bragged, bragger, bragging, braggy, bragly, brags+/bragger: braggers/bragging: braggingly, braggings USAGE EXAMPLESHe 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, triumphdwell on with satisfaction congratulate, preenpride 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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