Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Proudly; boastfully.
A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification. · The thing which is boasted of. · Short for three card brag.
To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done; often as an attempt to popularize oneself. · To act in an arrogant or boastful manner.
Excellent; first-rate. · Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
From Middle English braggen (“to make a loud noise; to speak boastfully”) of uncertain origin. Possibly related to the Middle English adjective brag (“prideful; spirited”), which is probably of Celtic origin; or from Old Norse bragr (“best; foremost; poetry”); or through Old English from Old Norse braka (“to creak”).
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