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单词 brag
释义 brag
I. \ˈbrag, -aa(ə), -aig\ adjective
(bragger ; braggest)
Etymology: Middle English
1. archaic
 a. : full of spirits : lively, lusty
 b. : boastful, pretentious
  < the braggest of all soldiers >
2. : superlatively good : first-rate
 < a brag dog >
— often used of something displayed with pride or self-congratulation
 < he showed me his brag cornfield, which was going to fill his crib — H.C.Nixon >
II. noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English
1. : a pompous, cocky, or boastful statement, comment, or story
2.
 a. obsolete : ostentatious display : pomp
  < the brag and show of a royal court >
 b. : arrogant or swaggering talk or manner : truculence, cockiness
  < all his adolescent brag — A.M.Schlesinger b.1917 >
  < all the brag and bluster — Kiplinger Washington Letter >
3. : an old card game resembling poker
4. : braggart
III. verb
(bragged ; bragged ; bragging ; brags)
Etymology: Middle English braggen
intransitive verb
1. : to talk about oneself or things pertaining to oneself in a boastful manner : boast
 < mechanics bragging about their skill >
 < his luck had been nothing to brag about >
2. obsolete : swagger, strut
transitive verb
1. now chiefly Scotland : threaten, defy, challenge
 < brag a person to a race >
2. : to assert boastfully or cockily
 < bragging that his crops were the best in the county >
3. archaic : boast of
Synonyms: see boast
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