Significados de bragging em inglês

And, at one level at least, their crowing was easy to understand.

He laughed; a high, chuckling, crowing laugh; the laugh of triumphant optimism.

It was morning now; the cock was still crowing down at Sirilund.

From somewhere outside, she heard a crowing sound and looked up expectantly.

The animals were in the southeast corner, mooing and crowing and baying.

Jason Barnett and Michele Austin are equally good as the boastful neighbours.

How many times in your life have you heard this boastful remark:

I grow boastful; I am an old man and should know better.

She was surprised to hear something almost boastful in her own tone.

And while he was there he heard the Giant speak boastful words.

Women such as I am are not won in this braggart fashion.

He'd been such a shameless braggart that the crowd couldn't help cheering.

That man may have been a convict; but he is no braggart.

Something in his pose, half rustic, half braggart, seemed familiar to Gaspard.

He tried hard to despise the braggart, but ended with envying him.

He was a biggity acting and braggy talking old man.

My heart began to pound, beating against my chest, pummeling my ribs and getting all braggy about its muscle strength.

One day, will our children turn to us and ask, "Mommy and Daddy, why was all of your hip-hop performed by braggy robots?"

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.

Granger was at Braggy's late headquarters in bed.

To read their press, Conservatives should be cock-a-hoop at Labour's policy splurge.

Australia, newly-crowned Tri-Nations champions are cock-a-hoop after their bonus point win over Italy.

UK property website Zoopla, which is also contemplating a float, must be cock-a-hoop.

This week, they arrive buoyant and cock-a-hoop, ready to take on the world.

Naturally, the artist was cock-a-hoop about the outcome and who can blame her?

He was not interested in self-aggrandizing or having his name in lights.

Is there some basic right which self-aggrandizing politicians seek to destroy first?

Typical self-aggrandizing hyperbole, but acknowledged to be a reasonable comparison nonetheless.

Many physicists loathe the term, fretting that it makes their discipline seem self-aggrandizing.

Harris was affable, charming and simultaneously self-deprecating and comically self-aggrandizing.

She's eager to avoid the cliches of sweaty torsos and self-aggrandising story-lines.

I'm all for a healthy dose of scepticism where self-aggrandising mercy missions are concerned.

Rock biographies are often worthy and self-aggrandising but this is brilliantly funny and self-deprecating.

How self-aggrandising is that? If he had a whip to hand, he'd be lashing himself.

There's nothing so unreliable as a criminal's self-aggrandising memoirs.