Word Meanings - BRAG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: BRAG

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. Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament. Shak. Syn. -- To swagger; boast; vapor; bluster; vaunt; flourish; talk big. (more info) life, flaunt, boast, OF. brague merriment), from Icel. braka to creak, brak noise, fr. the same root as E. break; properly then, to

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BRAG)

• Vaunt
• Boast
• brag
• puff
• hawk
• trumpet
• cackle
• advertise
• flourish
• cry
• parade

Related words: (words related to BRAG)

• VAUNT
  To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag. Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. Gov. of Tongue.
• TRUMPET
  A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves
• BOASTFUL
  Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.
• TRUMPET-TONGUED
  Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.
• VAUNTER
  One who vaunts; a boaster.
• FLOURISHINGLY
  , adv. In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.
• BOASTING
  The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display. When boasting ends, then dignity begins. Young.
• TRUMPET-SHAPED
  Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper.
• ADVERTISEMENT
  1. The act of informing or notifying; notification. An advertisement of danger. Bp. Burnet. 2. Admonition; advice; warning. Therefore give me no counsel: My griefs cry louder than advertisement. Shak. 3. A public notice, especially a paid notice
• TRUMPETWOOD
  A tropical American tree of the Breadfruit family, having hollow stems, which are used for wind instruments; -- called also snakewood, and trumpet tree.
• FLOURISHER
  One who flourishes.
• CACKLER
  1. A fowl that cackles. 2. One who prattles, or tells tales; a tattler.
• ADVERTISER
  One who, or that which, advertises.
• PARADE
  An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private , according to the force assembled. 3. Pompous
• VAUNTFUL
  Given to vaunting or boasting; vainly ostentatious; boastful; vainglorious.
• BOASTANCE
  Boasting. Chaucer.
• TRUMPETING
  A channel cut behind the brick lining of a shaft. Raymond.
• BOASTIVE
  Presumptuous.
• CACKLE
  gackeln, gackern; all of imitative origin. Cf. Gagle, Cake to 1. To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does. When every goose is cackling. Shak. 2. To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle.
• AVAUNTOUR
  A boaster. Chaucer.
• STRUMPET
  A prostitute; a harlot. Shak. (more info) debauchery, F. stupe, L. stuprare, stupratum, to debauch, stuprum
• REFLOURISH
  To flourish again.