Reverse Dictionary: BRAG

ADJECTIVES
1528 ► CRACKING boasting, bragging
1564 ► THRASONICAL given to bragging, boasting; exhibiting ostentation 
1596 ► HUFTIE TUFTIE → HUFTY-TUFTY bragging, swaggering → obs.
1598 ► SWORD-AND-BUCKLER bragging, blustering → obs.
1626 ► RODOMONT braggart, bombastic, boasting → arch.
1645 ► RODOMONTADO bragging, boastful, ranting → obs.
1660 ► RODOMONTADE bragging, boastful, ranting 
1670 ► FANFARON bragging, boastful 
1671 ► TONGUE-DOUGHTY bragging, boasting; valiant in speech 
1816 ► MASSY bragging, boastful; self-important, conceited → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1838 ► BRAG worthy bragging about; excellent or superlative → Amer. dial.
1867 ► VENTOSE bragging, pompous, vaunting 
1885 ► MUCKFOODLE bragging, boastful → Eng. dial.
1898 ► BELCHING bragging, boasting, like an empty windbag → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1911 ► BLOUTERING bragging, boasting → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 ► BRAGGY bragging, boastful; bombastic → Sc. (Bk.)

NOUNS
1200 ► ROOSE a brag, a boast; a boasting, vainglory → obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1340 ► VAUNTING a bragging, a boasting  → arch.
1440 ► BLORE bragging talk; stormy breath; noisy bluster; loud talking 
1440 ► CRACKING exaggerated talking, bragging, boasting → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1450 ► CRACK loud talk, boast, brag; exaggeration, a lie → arch.
1500 ► VOUST a brag, a boast  → Sc.
1576 ► JACTATION a bragging, a boasting, ostentatious display 
1591 ► RODOMONTADE a brag; a boast; an extravagantly boastful or arrogant remark of speech 
1598 ► RODOMONTADO a brag; a boast; an extravagantly boastful or arrogant remark of speech 
..17C ► CRAKE a brag, a boast, bluster → obs.
1614 ► VAPOUR a foolish brag or boast; a fancy or fantastic idea → obs.
1632 ► JACTITATION a bragging, a boasting; public or open declaration of a boastful sort; ostentatious affirmation 
1634 ► BOUNCING a bragging, a boasting, a blustering; boastful exaggeration, lying; a good scolding 
1652 ► FANFARONADE a brag, boastful assertion; boisterous or arrogant language; ostentation; an instance of this 
1737 ► GAB a piece of brag or bravado; an idle vaunt 
1748 ► FLASH a brag, a boast, or great pretense made by a spendthrift, quack, or pretender to more art or knowledge than he really has → sl.
1825 ► SCOWF braggadocio; blustering, empty talk → Sc. obs.
.M19 ► TALL TALK  boasting, bragging, the telling of far-fetched stories and anecdotes → sl., orig. US
1866 ► GANDY a brag, a boast; pert, foolish talk → Sc. obs.
1873 ► BLOWING a bragging, a boasting 
1895 ► BUCK → BUKH bragging talk; talk, conversation → sl.
1898 ► BARRACKING bragging, boastfulness → N. Ireland (Bk.)
1898 ► BELLY-COURAGE a bragging, a boasting → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1911 ► BLAST → BLOST → BLOUST a brag, a boast; a boasting narration → Sc. (Bk.)
1945 ► CROCK OF SHIT a bragging; nonsense; a mass of lies; ‘bullshit’ → US sl.
1992 ► LIP MUSIC a bragging, a boasting, a teasing → US sl.

NOUNS, PERSON
1440 ► SEGGER a braggart; a boaster; one given to talking → obs.
1456 ► VAUNTER a braggart; a boaster → arch.
1509 ► CRACKER a boaster, a braggart; a liar
1515 ► FACER a braggart; one who boasts, blusters, or swaggers; one who possesses ‘cheek’ → obs.
1535 ► BYSTOUR a braggart; a loud, rude talker; a bully → Sc. obs.
1551 ► RUSH-BUCKLER a swaggering bravo or ruffian; a noisy braggadocio
1570 ► BANGISTER → BANGSTER a braggart; a blustering fellow; a ruffian; a thug → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1577 ► SWINGE-BUCKLER a swashbuckler; a swaggering bravo or ruffian; a noisy braggadocio → obs.
1579 ► JACK BRAG a vulgar braggart; a boaster → sl.
1579 ► JACK BRAGGER a vulgar braggart; a boaster → sl.
1583 ► HUFF-SNUFF a braggart; a conceited fellow who gives himself airs and is quick to take offense; a blustering person → obs.
1589 ► GLORIOSER a braggart; a boaster → obs.
1598 ► BURGULLIAN a braggadocio; a bully → obs.
1598 ► RODOMONT a great bragger; a vain or blustering boaster; a bully → arch.
1599 ► GLORIOSO a braggart; a boaster → obs.
1599 ► PUCKFIST an empty braggart → contemptuous usage
1602 ► HUFF-MUFF a braggart, a blusterer → obs.
1609 ► RODOMONTADO a great bragger or boaster → obs.
1622 ► FANFARON a braggart; an empty boaster; a bully, blusterer, or swaggerer; a vain pretender 
1622 ► GLASTERER a braggart; a boaster → Sc.
1623 ► ARETALOGER a person who brags or boasts of his own virtue or accomplishments → obs.
1625 ► CACAFOGO → CACAFUEGO → CACAFUGO → CACOFUEGO a braggart; a blusterer; a noisy bully; a very difficult or devilish person; one with a fiery temper → sl.
1639 ► BELLSWAGGER → BELSWAGGER a noisy braggart; a swaggering gallant, a bully → obs.
1640 ► CRACK a boaster, a braggart, a liar → obs.
.M17 ► HECTOR a braggart; a swaggering fellow; a blusterer, a bully, a thug; a bouncer, esp. of a brothel 
1653 ► VAPOURER a bragging, grandiloquent, or fantastical talker 
1656 ► JACTATOR a bragger, a boaster → obs.
1670 ► BUGIARD a lying braggart; a liar → obs.
1671 ► BRAG a braggart, a boaster 
1672 ► DRAWCANSIR a pot-valiant braggart; a blustering, bullying fellow 
1678 ► VOUSTER a braggart; a boaster → Sc. obs.
1681 ► VALIENTON a braggart; a bully → obs.
1683 ► RODOMONTADE a braggart; a boaster → obs.
1698 ► HACKUM a braggart; a bravo; a blustering bully → UK sl.
..L17 ► CAPTAIN BLUFF a bully; a braggart → sl.
..L17 ► CAPTAIN BLUSTER a bully; a braggart → sl.
..18C ► CAPTAIN BOUNCE a bully; a braggart → sl.
1706 ► HECK a braggart; a blusterer; a hector; a swaggering fellow; a swashbuckler → obs.
1709 ► GASCONADER a braggart, a boaster 
1730 ► RODOMONTADER a braggart 
1757 ► GASCON a braggart; a boaster; a person who resembles a Gascon in character 
1771 ► BOBADIL a blustering braggart who pretends to prowess; a swaggering boaster 
1790 ► GANDY a bragging, boastful person; a pert talker → Sc. obs.
..19C ► FLAPDOODLER a braggart agitator → Amer. sl.
1800 ► TONGUE-HERO a braggart 
1822 ► SCOOT → SKOOT a braggadocio; a term of contempt applied to both men and women → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1825 ► BANGEISTER a braggart, a bully; a violent and disorderly person who regards no law but his own will → Sc.
1825 ► VANDIE a braggadocio; a vain, self-conceited fellow → Sc. (Bk.)
1825 ► VAUNTIE → VAUNTY a braggadocio; a vain, vaunting, self-conceited fellow → Sc.
1827 ► HECTORER a person who brags, who hectors, blusters, or domineers; one who plays the hector or bully 
1830 ► SACRIPANT a braggart; a boastful pretender to valour; a bully and boaster 
1834 ► BOUNCER a braggart; a boaster, a swaggering liar 
1835 ► BILSHER a braggart; a boastful person → Sc.
1838 ► SPRAG a person with an arrogant, swaggering manner; a boaster; a braggart → Sc.
1841 ► GASBAG a braggart; a boaster; a person who talks at length but says little of value; a long-winded orator; a ‘windbag’ → sl.
1841 ► SHOW-OFF a braggart; a person given to ostentatious behaviour → colloq.
1848 ► GASMAN a braggart; a talkative person → US sl.
.M19 ► SWANKER  a braggart, a show-off → sl.
1857 ► BLOW-HARD a braggart; a blustering person → US
1859 ► BLOWER a braggart; a boaster; one who exaggerates → Eng. & Amer. dial.
1867 ► TALL-TALKER a braggart; a boaster → sl.
1868 ► GANDIER a braggart; a vain, boastful person → Sc. obs.
1876 ► SCOG a braggart; a boaster → Eng. dial.
1887 ► WINDJAMMER a braggart; a big talker; a boaster → Amer. dial.
1889 ► BIGMOUTH a braggart; a boaster; a loud, over-talkative person → sl., orig. & chiefly US (Bk.)
1890 ► PUNK-FIST a boaster, a braggart → obs.
1896 ► GAUSTERER a braggart; a swaggerer; a blusterer → Eng. dial.
1898 ► BARRACKER a braggart → N. Ireland (Bk.)
1898 ► BLETHER-BREEKS a bragging, idle fellow → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
..L19 ► JACK STROP’S OLD WOMAN  a braggart; a dogmatic know-all → sl.
..20C ► SWANKPOT a braggart; a boaster → sl.
1900 ► FALSE ALARM a braggart; a boaster → sl.
1900 ► SWANK a braggart; a show-off → sl.
1902 ► BIG TALKER a braggart; a person given to boasting and exaggeration → sl.
1904 ► STUMPER a braggart → sl. (Bk.)
1906 ► SKITE a braggart; a boastful person; a conceited person → Aust. & NZ colloq.
1909 ► PUT-ON a braggart → Amer. dial.
1913 ► BALLOONATIC a braggart → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1913 ► SNORTER a stentorian braggart → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1915 ► BIG BLOW a braggart; a boaster → Amer. dial.
1915 ► BLOW a braggart; a boaster → Amer. dial.
1922 ► BASILISCO a braggart (Bk.)
1923 ► BILSH a braggart; a boaster → Sc.
1924 ► BUCKSTICK a braggart; a boaster → Anglo-Indian
1926 ► FATMOUTH a braggart; a boaster; a loquacious talker → US sl., chiefly African-American
1927 ► MOUTH ARTIST a braggart; an empty boaster → US sl.
1930 ► SIGNIFIER a braggart; a boaster → African-American sl.
1931 ► TROMBENICK → TROMBENIK a braggart; a boaster → US sl.
1931 ► WINNISTER → WINNOWSTER a braggart; a boastful person; a windbag → Sc.
1932 ► BIG DOING → BIG DOINGS a braggart; a boaster; a pompous person, a show-off, a bully  → US sl.
1932 ► SPANISH ATHLETE a braggart; a boaster; one who ‘throws the bull’; one who talks nonsense → US college sl.
1934 ► BRAGGY a braggart or an excessively boastful person → Amer. dial.
1934 ► LOUDSPEAKER a braggart or loudmouth; an important person or one who regards himself as important → US sl.
1934 ► WIND SUCKER a braggart → US cinema sl. (Bk.)
1938 ► BILGE ARTIST a braggart; one given to boasting → Aust. sl.
1940 ► BUTTON-BUSTER a braggart, a boaster → sl., orig. African-American
1945 ► BIG SNORT FROM BRIDGEPORT a bragger → jive usage (Bk.)
.M20 ► CRAPPER  a braggart; a teller of lies and nonsense → US sl.
1950 ► ALLIGATOR MOUTH a braggart; a boaster; someone with an inclination to boast or brag but insufficient courage to back up their words → US sl.
1950 ► BLOW BAG a braggart; a boaster → Amer. dial.
1950 ► BLOW BELLY a braggart; a boaster → Amer. dial.
1950 ► BLOW TOP a braggart; a boaster → Amer. dial.
1950 ► BLOW-OFF a braggart; a boaster → Amer. dial.
1950 ► FARTKNOCKER a braggart → US sl.
1954 ► SHOW-OUT a braggart; a show-off; a loud, self-assertive person → Amer. dial.
1960 ► BILGE LIZARD a braggart; one given to boasting → UK sl.
1960 ► SELF-BRAG a braggart; a conceited person → Amer. dial.
1965 ► BIG BRAG a braggart; a boaster → Amer. dial.
1965 ► BLOW BOY a braggart; a boaster → Amer. dial.
1965 ► BLOWFLY a braggart; a boaster → Amer. dial.
1965 ► BLOW GEORGE a braggart; a boaster → Amer. dial.
1965 ► BLOW GUT a braggart; a boaster → Amer. dial.
1965 ► BLOW HAMMER a braggart; a boaster → Amer. dial.
1965 ► BLOW HEELS a braggart; a boaster → Amer. dial.
1965 ► BLOW HOLE a braggart; a boaster → Amer. dial.
1965 ► BLOW HORN a braggart; a boaster → Amer. dial.
1965 ► BLOW HOT a braggart; a boaster → Amer. dial.
1965 ► BLOW HOUSE a braggart; a boaster → Amer. dial.
1965 ► BLOW PIPE a braggart; a boaster → Amer. dial.
1965 ► BRAG-ABOUT a braggart; a boaster → Amer. dial.
1965 ► BRAG-ASS a braggart; a boaster → Amer. dial.
1965 ► BRAG-BOX a braggart; a boaster → Amer. dial.
1965 ► BRAGGADOSHA a person who likes to brag → Amer. dial.
1965 ► BRAGGADOSHE a person who likes to brag → Amer. dial.
1965 ► BRAGGADOSHOO a person who likes to brag → Amer. dial.
1965 ► BRAG-HARD a braggart; a boaster → Amer. dial.
1965 ► BRAG-HEAD a braggart; a boaster → Amer. dial.
1965 ► BRAG-POT a braggart; a boaster → Amer. dial.
1965 ► GAS-POT a person who likes to brag → Amer. dial.
1965 ► HOT SHIT ON A STICK a braggart; an important or consequential person → Amer. dial.
1965 ► PRICKHEAD a person who likes to brag → Amer. dial.
1965 ► SHIT ON A STICK a braggart; an important or consequential person → Amer. dial.
1965 ► SHIT ON A STICK BUT HE AIN’T FART ON A SPLINTER a braggart; an important or consequential person → Amer. dial.
1966 ► BARIMER a braggart, a show-off → sl., Yiddish (Bk.)
1966 ► HARDBLOW a braggart → Amer. dial.
1966 ► MOUTH-OFF a braggart, a boaster, a chatterer → sl., orig. US
1966 ► SELF-BRAGGER a braggart; a conceited person → Amer. dial.
1967 ► BIG I, LITTLE YOU a person who likes to brag; an important or self-important person  → Amer. dial.
1967 ► BIG NOTER a braggart who uses money to impress others; a show-off; one who consistently draws attention to their own success, wealth, etc. → Aust. sl.
1967 ► BRAGGADOE a person who likes to brag → Amer. dial.
1967 ► CASSIUS CLAY a talkative person; a braggart or boastful person → US students’ sl. (Bk.)
1968 ► BIG ME a person who likes to brag → Amer. dial.
1968 ► BLOWGUN a braggart; a loudmouth; a boaster → Amer. dial.
1970 ► ACT-ASS a braggart; one who sees themself as cleverer than they really are; a show-off → US sl.
1970 ► SHITTER a braggart, a boaster → sl., orig. US
1975 ► TAFFY-HEAD a braggart, a boaster, a ‘big-head’ → sl.
1980 ► EAR HANGER a braggart → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1984 ► BIG-NOTE ARTIST a braggart, esp. concerning alleged sums of money he possesses → sl. (Bk.)
1986 ► BIG BOK a braggart; a self-important person → S. Afr. sl.
1987 ► BIG-NOTER a braggart; a boastful person → Aust. sl.
1990 ► CHIEF a braggart; a fool → Black British sl.
1998 ► MOUTH AND TROUSERS a braggart → UK sl.
2006 ► CROCK OF SHIT a braggart → US sl., derogatory (Bk.)

PHRASES
1940 ► ALL PISS AND WIND LIKE THE BARBER’S DOG used of a blusterer or braggart → Aust. & NZ sl.
1950 ► HE’S GOT AN ALLIGATOR MOUTH AND A CANARY ASS said of a person with an inclination to boast or brag but insufficient courage to back up their words → US sl.
1950 ► HE’S GOT AN ALLIGATOR MOUTH AND A HUMMINGBIRD ASS said of a person with an inclination to boast or brag but insufficient courage to back up their words → US sl.
2004 ► I AIN’T HERE TO BRAG used for demonstrating that the speaker understands that he is bragging → US 

VERBS
1315 ► KEB to brag, to boast → obs.
1400 ► VAUNT to brag, to boast; to use boastful or bragging language → arch.
1450 ► POMP to boast, to brag → obs.
1470 ► CRACK to talk big, to boast, to brag → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1513 ► VOUST to brag, to boast, to vaunt → Sc.
1524 ► BLATHER → BLETHER → BLITHER to brag, to tell tales; to talk foolishly; to talk nonsense → orig. Eng. dial.
1530 ► MAKE A VAUNT to brag, to boast 
1530 ► RAIL to brag, to boast → obs.
1542 ► BRAG IT OUT WITH A CARD OF TEN to brag, to put on a bold front → obs.
1542 ► FACE IT OUT WITH A CARD OF TEN to brag, to put on a bold front → obs.
1619 ► THRASONIZE to brag, to boast → obs.
1621 ► CRAKE to brag, to boast; to gossip → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1628 ► VAPOUR to brag, to bluster; to talk fantastically, grandiloquently, or boastingly 
1661 ► HECTOR to brag, to bluster; to play the bully; to domineer 
1663 ► RODOMONTADO to brag, to treat in a boastful manner → obs.
1674 ► GAUSTER → GOWSTER → GOYSTER to brag, to boast; to behave in a noisy, boisterous, or swaggering fashion; to frolic and romp → Eng. dial.
1681 ► RODOMONTADE to brag, to boast; to rant 
1699 ► TALK BIG to brag, to talk boastfully; to indulge in inflated language → colloq.
1785 ► VAPER to brag, to boast, to swagger, to exult; to bully; to flourish menacingly; to threaten with violence → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1790 ► VOOST to brag, to boast, to vaunt → Sc. obs.
..19C ► BLOW to brag 
..19C ► CACK to brag, to boast, esp. of one’s good fortune → Eng. dial. & African-American
..19C ► COCKERATE to brag, to boast → Eng. dial.
1808 ► GANDY to brag, to boast; to talk foolishly; to chatter in a pert manner → Sc. obs.
1818 ► GOB to brag, to boast; to talk impudently or idly → Eng. dial.
1819 ► FLASH ONE’S GAB to brag, to talk, to swagger → sl.
1825 ► GAB to brag, to boast → arch.
1841 ► SHOW OUT to brag, to show off; to make a display of oneself; to behave extravagantly, esp. in order to drawn attention to oneself → Amer. dial.
1857 ► SKITE to brag, to boast → Aust. & NZ colloq.
1864 ► SHOOT OFF ONE’S MOUTH to brag, to boast; to talk indiscreetly or abusively → sl.
1866 ► GANGE → GAUNGE to brag, to boast; to exaggerate, to fib → Sc.
1877 ► VAMP to brag, to boast, to vaunt → Eng. dial.
1880 ► BUCK → BUKH to brag, to swagger, to talk big or bumptiously → sl.
1881 ► QUIVER to brag → Eng. dial.
1888 ► TALK FLAPDOODLE to brag, to talk nonsense → sl.
1898 ► BARGE → BAUGE to brag, to boast → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 ► BARRACK to brag, to be boastful of one’s fighting powers  → N. Ireland (Bk.)
1900 ► FLING THE MELL to brag, to boast, to exaggerate → Sc.
1904 ► SCOG to brag, to boast; to be self-important → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► RAP to brag, to boast → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1910 ► PUSH ONE’S OWN BARROW to brag → Aust. sl.
1911 ► BLAST → BRAIG to brag, to boast  → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 ► BLAW to brag; to exaggerate from ostentation → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 ► BLAZE to brag, to bluster → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 ► BLOUST to brag, to boast; to bluster → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 ► MAKE BRAGS to brag, to boast → Sc. (Bk.)
1914 ► POP OFF to brag, to rant; to criticize → US World War I usage
1915 ► WINDJAM to brag, to boast, to talk big → Amer. dial.
1920 ► LAIR to brag, to boast; to act in a showy manner → Aust. sl.
1920 ► LAIRIZE to brag, to boast; to act in a showy manner → Aust. sl.
1920 ► LARE UP to brag, to boast; to act in a showy manner → Aust. sl.
1920 ► SIGNIFY to brag, to boast, or pretend to a greater sophistication that one actually possesses → African-American sl.
1928 ► AIR ONE’S PAUNCH to brag, to boast → US sl., chiefly West. usage
1940 ► BULLSKATE to brag → African-American sl.
1940 ► CACKLE ONE’S FAT to brag, to boast; to express a self-opinionated, esp. if contradictory, point of view → sl.
1940 ► PUT UP PAPER FOR ONESELF to brag, to aggrandize oneself → US sl.
1941 ► SHOOT A LINE to brag, to boast → Brit. sl.
1942 ► LINE-SHOOT to brag, to boast → Brit. sl.
1950 ► BREAK ONE’S ARM to brag → Amer. dial.
1958 ► MOUTH OFF to brag → US
1960 ► GET ABOVE ONESELF to brag, to attack verbally → African-American sl.
1960 ► POP OFF AT THE MOUTH to brag, to boast → sl.
1960 ► SELL A WOLF TICKET → SELL A WOOF TICKET to brag, to boast → African-American sl.
1967 ► KVELL to brag, to boast → US sl.
1970 ► SELL A WOLF → SELL A WOOF to brag, to boast, to show off; to talk loudly; to tell a lie → African-American sl.
1975 ► BEAT THE DRUM to brag, to advertise, to seek attention or appreciation → US sl. (Bk.)
1975 ► BLOW SMOKE to boast, to brag, to exaggerate → US sl. (Bk.)
1990 ► RIFF to brag; to lie → US sl.
1999 ► STACK IT to brag, to boast → NZ prison sl.