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bragging (root: brag)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bragging has 1 sense
- bragging(n = noun.communication) brag, crow, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing - an instance of boastful talk; "his brag is worse than his fight"; "whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade" is a kind of boast, boasting, jactitation, self-praise
Adjective bragging has 1 sense
- bragging(s = adj.all) big, boastful, braggart, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing - exhibiting self-importance; "big talk"
THESAURUS
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
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