bragger
Americannoun
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braggers
plural
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a person who brags.
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Cards.
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(in some forms of brag) the jack of clubs or nine of diamonds.
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(in other forms of brag) any jack or nine.
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the first bettor in a game of brag.
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Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of bragger
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at brag, -er 1
Example Sentences
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He was a genuine guy, not a bragger or anything like that,” remembered Weldon.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2022
Mostly, I feel angry when I hear about one of her achievements, even though she’s not a bragger.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
I am firmly of the opinion that LaVar Ball is an overbearing colossal bragger whose only concern is his own self-aggrandizement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2017
She wasn't a bragger, like Norman Mailer, or a misanthrope like J.D.
From US News ● Feb. 19, 2016
“Then they don’t know. They think you’re a bragger and a liar, and they have every right to, but they don’t know.”
From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner
AS A PARENT, I find the unspoken reason this topic elicits such passion is that the same feeling underlies both the braggers and the antibraggers: fear.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2013
But the prevalence of social media has given us many more canvases on which to paint our faux humility — making us, in turn, increasingly sophisticated braggers.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2012
Winning the braggers Cup heaps prestige upon the winners and shame amongst the losers.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he was more afraid of the ten or twelve little boys there than of those braggers.
From The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes; his fortunes and misfortunes as told by himself by Robert S. Rudder
He also held worshipful feasts, and out-bragged the braggers, declaring that he would buy all the wares in Nóvgorod, or forfeit thirty thousand in money.
From A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Isabel Florence Hapgood
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