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Blag vs Brag - What's the difference?

blag | brag |

As verbs the difference between blag and brag

is that blag is to obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion while brag is to boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, can do, or has done.

As nouns the difference between blag and brag

is that blag is a means of obtaining something by trick or deception while brag is a boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.

As adjectives the difference between blag and brag

is that blag is fake, not genuine while brag is first-rate.

As an adverb brag is

proudly; boastfully.

blag

English

Verb

(blagg)
  • (British, informal, transitive) To obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion.
  • (British, informal) More specifically, to obtain confidential information by impersonation or other deception.
    • The newspaper is accused of blagging details of Gordon Brown's flat purchase from his solicitors.
  • (British, informal, transitive) To beg, to cadge.
    • Can I blag a fag?
  • (UK, informal, transitive) To steal.
  • (Polari) To pick up someone.
  • To persuade.
    • He's blagged his way into many a party.
  • To deceive, to perpetrate a hoax on.

    • Synonyms

    * pretext

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, informal) A means of obtaining something by trick or deception.
    • A good blag to get into a nightclub is to walk in carrying a record box.
  • An armed robbery.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (British, informal) Fake, not genuine.
    • You’re wearing a blag designer shirt!

    Derived terms

    * blagger, Blagger

    External links

    * blag] at [http://septicscompanion.com The Septic's Companion: A British Slang Dictionary ----

    brag

    English

    Verb

  • To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, can do, or has done.
    • to brag of one's exploits, courage, or money
  • * Shakespeare
    • Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, / Brags of his substance, not of ornament.
  • To boast of.
  • *Shakespeare
    • Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade

    Synonyms

    * boast

    Derived terms

    * braggart * bragging rights * humblebrag

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Caesar made not here his brag / Of "came", and "saw", and "overcame".
  • The thing which is boasted of.
  • * Milton
    • Beauty is Nature's brag .
  • (by ellipsis) The card game three card brag.
    • (Chesterfield)

    Adjective

    (bragger)
  • First-rate.
  • (archaic) Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • a brag young fellow

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (obsolete) proudly; boastfully
    • (Fuller)

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