bragging

bragging
    adj 1: exhibiting self-importance; "big talk" [syn: {boastful},
           {braggart(a)}, {bragging(a)}, {braggy}, {big},
           {cock-a-hoop}, {crowing}, {self-aggrandizing}, {self-
           aggrandising}]
    n 1: an instance of boastful talk; "his brag is worse than his
         fight"; "whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade"
         [syn: {brag}, {bragging}, {crow}, {crowing}, {vaporing},
         {line-shooting}, {gasconade}]
    

Brag \Brag\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bragged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Bragging}.] [OE. braggen to resound, blow, boast (cf. F.
   braguer to lead a merry life, flaunt, boast, OF. brague
   merriment), from Icel. braka to creak, brak noise, fr. the
   same root as E. break; properly then, to make a noise, boast.
   ?{95}.]
   To talk about one's self, or things pertaining to one's self,
   in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder;
   to talk boastfully; to boast; -- often followed by of; as, to
   brag of one's exploits, courage, or money, or of the great
   things one intends to do.
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         Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
         Brags of his substance, not of ornament. --Shak.
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   Syn: To swagger; boast; vapor; bluster; vaunt; flourish; talk
        big.
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41 Moby Thesaurus words for "bragging":
      Gascon, bluster, boast, boastful, boastfulness, boasting, bombast,
      brag, braggadocio, braggart, braggartism, bravado, conceit,
      conceited, fanfaron, fanfaronade, fanfaronading, gasconade,
      gasconading, gasconism, heroics, jactation, jactitation,
      rodomontade, self-advertising, self-applauding, self-flattering,
      self-glorious, self-lauding, self-vaunting, side, swagger,
      thrasonic, thrasonical, vain, vainglorious, vanity, vaporing,
      vaunt, vauntery, vaunting