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Definition of Braggart
1. Adjective. Exhibiting self-importance. "Big talk"
Similar to: Proud
Derivative terms: Boastfulness, Brag
2. Noun. A very boastful and talkative person.
Generic synonyms: Egoist, Egotist, Swellhead
Derivative terms: Boast, Brag, Brag, Vaunt
Definition of Braggart
1. n. A boaster.
2. a. Boastful.
Definition of Braggart
1. Noun. someone who boasts. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Braggart
1. one who brags [n -S] - See also: brags
Medical Definition of Braggart
1. A boaster. "O, I could play the woman with mine eyes, And braggart with my tongue." (Shak) Origin: OF. Bragard flaunting, vain, bragging. See Brag. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Braggart
Literary usage of Braggart
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages: Classified Subjectively and by Robert Christy (1887)
"Every braggart shall be found an ass. Shaks. 9. God and men think him a fool who
brags of his own great wisdom. 10. Great boast and little roast make ..."
2. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones (1866)
"Meets a braggart's fate.—The war transferred to Northern Virginia. JULY IST.—To-day
Gen. Magruder led his division into action at Malvern Hill, it is said, ..."
3. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"... braggart AND PARASITE. BY TERENCE. (From " The Eunuch. ... a military officer,
braggart, and coxcomb; LACHES, an old Athenian gentleman, with two sons, ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"FROM <MILES GLORIOSUS' (THE braggart SOLDIER) [The soldier himself opens the
play, coming forth from his house, which, with a neighbor's, forms the back of ..."
5. Old Virginia and Her Neighbours by John Fiske (1900)
"To the flippant criticism which treats Smith as a vapouring braggart, this simple
fact is a staggering blow between the eyes. Let me add that in his way of ..."
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