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Definition of Braggers
1. bragger [n] - See also: bragger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Braggers
Literary usage of Braggers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hoyle's Games: Containing the Rules for Playing Fashionable Games, with by Edmond Hoyle (1887)
"1 ace and 2 braggers, 3 queens, 2 kings and 1 br.umer, ... 3 nines, 3 eights, 1
ten and 2 braggers, 2 eights and 1 bragger, 1 eight and 2 braggers, faces, ..."
2. Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of All the Indoor Games Played at by Robert Frederick Foster (1897)
"A player to whom any one of these braggers is dealt may call it anything he pleases.
If he has a pair of nines and a bragger, or a nine and two braggers, ..."
3. The Works of James Pilkington by James Pilkington, John Morwen (1842)
""A weapon bodes peace," as the common saying is: for God hath made the weapon to
defend the body, as he made the meat to feed the body; and these braggers, ..."
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