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Brag vs Flabrigast - What's the difference?

brag | flabrigast |

As verbs the difference between brag and flabrigast

is that brag is to boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, can do, or has done while flabrigast is (scottish) to boast or brag.

As a noun brag

is a boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.

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)

    References

    Anagrams

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    flabrigast

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Scottish) To boast or brag
  • * 1878. James Brown Selkirk. Ethics and aesthetics of modern poetry . Smith, Elder, & Co. page 78.
    • He confesses to having loaded some of his compositions with technical tricks and difficulties on purpose to flabrigast some of his envious friends in Vienna.
  • {{reference-book
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    Derived terms

    * flabbergast (possible derivation)

    References

    * 2005. Jonathan Green. Cassell's Dictionary of Slang . Sterling Publishing Company. page 511.