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-) 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.

-) It is dated from the end of 1300.

-) Intransitive: -) 1. Literal and obsolete meaning: of a trumpet: to be played loudly.

-) 2. To be a bragger; to talk boastingly.

-) Synonyms for “brag”: 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”) + a noun or a gerund which stand for the subject:

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

Graham's Illustrated Magazine, 1840-1858

… 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… 1859

He did not brag about his victories.

Makepeace… The Virginians… 1859

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

C. Beers… A Mind… 1908

-) 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… 1899

-) Transitive: -) 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.

G. 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.