/brag/definition

brag

-) Verb.

-) Pronunciation: bræg.

-) Etymology: from Middle English braggen (= to trumpet; boast), from Old French braguer (= to flaunt, brag).

-) Preterite tense: bragged.

-) Preterite participle: bragged.

-) Present participle: bragging.

-) Intransitively: 1. Literally: of a trumpet: to be played loudly. (Obsolete acceptation).

-) 2. To be a bragger; to talk boastingly; to refer to oneself, or something related to oneself, in a boasting manner or in a manner intended to excite wonder or envy.

-) Synonyms: to vaunt, boast, swagger; boast.

-) Antonyms: disclaim something, disavow.

-) Translation: jactarse de, in Spanish; se vanter, in French; vantarsi, in Italian.

-) With the preposition of (or about) followed either by a noun or a gerund which stand for the subject:

[…] Gumbo, in the inn-kitchen, where the townsfolk drank their mug of ale by the great fire, bragged of his young master's splendid house in Virginia, and of the immense wealth to which he was heir.

Makepeace… The Virginians

He did not brag about his victories.

Thackeray… The Virginians 1859

I later learned that this grasping owner had bragged of making a profit of $98,000 in a single year.

Clifford Beers… A Mind… 1908

[…] he liked to brag about his courage, and how he would do provided he should see a bear.

Graham's Illustrated Magazine, vol. 50

-) With the preposition to + noun of the person to whom the bragger talks:

You bragged to those ladies about our dining-cars.

Howells… Their Silver Wedding Journey

-) Transitively: 1. To assert boastingly; to boast (the direct object is a subordinate clause introduced by that)

[The duke] hath oftentimes bragged openly in parliament that he had made the king yield to this.

George Craik… A pictorial history of England 1841

-) 2. To deceive or impose upon (someone) by boasting. (It is rarely used)

-) 3. Archaic: to boast of (something). 

-) Words derived from the verb BRAG: bragger, brag (noun), braggart, braggartly, braggartism, braggartry, braggery, bragging, braggingly, bragless.