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Meanings of
braggart
in inglés
portugués
pimpão
catalán
fanfarró
español
jactancioso
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A very boastful and talkative person.
boaster
blowhard
bragger
vaunter
line-shooter
español
jactancioso
Exhibiting self-importance.
big
bragging
crowing
boastful
braggy
cock-a-hoop
self-aggrandizing
self-aggrandising
Related terms
proud
Synonyms
Examples for "
big
"
big
bragging
crowing
boastful
braggy
Examples for "
big
"
1
We still have
big
water issues following the Havelock North water crisis.
2
No idea what half those
big
words mean but, yes, good point.
3
The paper sheds new light on a
big
issue for technology companies.
4
The
big
question now is: Can Quora really hope to answer everything?
5
New firms offering
'
big
data' solutions to bond traders continue to emerge.
1
He'd been
bragging
all week about how great his sonar gizmo was.
2
I am not
bragging
of it; I am only stating a fact.
3
She's been
bragging
to my other cousins all week that you're coming.
4
But it is an opportunity for the supporters to get
bragging
rights.
5
If I were in your place I'd go around
bragging
about it.
1
And, at one level at least, their
crowing
was easy to understand.
2
He laughed; a high, chuckling,
crowing
laugh; the laugh of triumphant optimism.
3
It was morning now; the cock was still
crowing
down at Sirilund.
4
From somewhere outside, she heard a
crowing
sound and looked up expectantly.
5
The animals were in the southeast corner, mooing and
crowing
and baying.
1
Jason Barnett and Michele Austin are equally good as the
boastful
neighbours.
2
How many times in your life have you heard this
boastful
remark:
3
I grow
boastful
;
I am an old man and should know better.
4
She was surprised to hear something almost
boastful
in her own tone.
5
And while he was there he heard the Giant speak
boastful
words.
1
He was a biggity acting and
braggy
talking old man.
2
My heart began to pound, beating against my chest, pummeling my ribs and getting all
braggy
about its muscle strength.
3
One day, will our children turn to us and ask, "Mommy and Daddy, why was all of your hip-hop performed by
braggy
robots?"
4
The second day out he was feelin' pretty
braggy
and uppish for a stowed-away conspirator that owed his existence to a mule and stolen bananas.
5
Granger was at
Braggy
's
late headquarters in bed.
1
To read their press, Conservatives should be
cock
-
a
-
hoop
at Labour's policy splurge.
2
Australia, newly-crowned Tri-Nations champions are
cock
-
a
-
hoop
after their bonus point win over Italy.
3
UK property website Zoopla, which is also contemplating a float, must be
cock
-
a
-
hoop
.
4
This week, they arrive buoyant and
cock
-
a
-
hoop
,
ready to take on the world.
5
Naturally, the artist was
cock
-
a
-
hoop
about the outcome and who can blame her?
1
He was not interested in
self
-
aggrandizing
or having his name in lights.
2
Is there some basic right which
self
-
aggrandizing
politicians seek to destroy first?
3
Typical
self
-
aggrandizing
hyperbole, but acknowledged to be a reasonable comparison nonetheless.
4
Many physicists loathe the term, fretting that it makes their discipline seem
self
-
aggrandizing
.
5
Harris was affable, charming and simultaneously self-deprecating and comically
self
-
aggrandizing
.
1
She's eager to avoid the cliches of sweaty torsos and
self
-
aggrandising
story-lines.
2
I'm all for a healthy dose of scepticism where
self
-
aggrandising
mercy missions are concerned.
3
Rock biographies are often worthy and
self
-
aggrandising
but this is brilliantly funny and self-deprecating.
4
How
self
-
aggrandising
is that? If he had a whip to hand, he'd be lashing himself.
5
There's nothing so unreliable as a criminal's
self
-
aggrandising
memoirs.
Usage of
braggart
in inglés
1
Women such as I am are not won in this
braggart
fashion.
2
He'd been such a shameless
braggart
that the crowd couldn't help cheering.
3
That man may have been a convict; but he is no
braggart
.
4
Something in his pose, half rustic, half
braggart
,
seemed familiar to Gaspard.
5
He tried hard to despise the
braggart
,
but ended with envying him.
6
Will you listen to the
braggart
?
cried Robin in a fine rage.
7
The bully's
braggart
manner and sneering voice made no impression on Vane.
8
January was the most modest woman on earth, yet the worst
braggart
.
9
He is the sworn foe of the bully or the
braggart
.
10
Such
braggart
speeches were quite in the manner of ancient warfare.
11
And in that moment Buzz, the bully and
braggart
,
vanished forever.
12
And he, the fool, had no share in this
braggart
heritage.
13
A long-winded, innocent
braggart
tells of his personal prowess that day.
14
I say taught us, for the foolhardy
braggart
was past learning anything himself.
15
Bask in my glory!, he would have appeared an appalling
braggart
.
16
But evidently Macko of Bogdaniec was not a
braggart
,
because he answered modestly:
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braggart
Adjective
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
young braggart
empty braggart
little braggart
arrogant braggart
boastful braggart
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Translations for
braggart
portugués
pimpão
catalán
fanfarró
fantotxe
pinxo
jactanciós
perdonavides
presumit
petulant
español
jactancioso
fantasma
Braggart
through the time
Braggart
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common