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Brag vs Bragfest - What's the difference?

brag | bragfest |

As nouns the difference between brag and bragfest

is that brag is a boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification while bragfest is (informal) a song, event, etc characterized by bragging.

As a verb brag

is to boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, can do, or has done.

As an adjective brag

is first-rate.

As an adverb brag

is (obsolete) proudly; boastfully.

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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    bragfest

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) A song, event, etc. characterized by bragging.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=May 25, author=The New York Times, title=New CDs, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Over a haunted-house beat by the goth-rap innovator Zaytoven, “Gorgeous” is magnificent, a shameless bragfest structured around two-syllable rhymes: “watch like thunder, chain like lightning/my ring game scary, my pinky so frightening.” }}