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Definition of Braggarts
1. braggart [n] - See also: braggart
Lexicographical Neighbors of Braggarts
Literary usage of Braggarts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. "Marse Henry": An Autobiography by Henry Watterson (1919)
"... CHAPTER THE TWENTY-EIGHTH BULLIES AND Braggarts SOME KENTUCKY ILLUSTRATIONS
THE OLD HOUSE THE ..."
2. Twenty Years Among Our Hostile Indians: Describing the Characteristics by James Lee Humfreville (1903)
"... Braggarts—Notorious Liars—The War Dance—Its Object —Organizing a War
Party—Encouraging the Braves to Join—Praying for their Safe Return—Feasting on ..."
3. The Edinburgh Annual Register by Sir Walter Scott, Walter Scott (1823)
"For if such are the braggarts that claim to be free, Come, despot of Russia, thy
feet let me kiss— ON GREECE. Of the three hundred, grant but three, ..."
4. Jacques Bonhomme, John Bull on the Continent, From My Letter-box by Max O'Rell (1901)
"Braggarts of Vice.—Each Fellow wants every other Fellow to believe that he is a
Devil of a Fellow.—Provincial Life in France.— The French are the Happiest ..."
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