Bragged vs Brogged - What's the difference?
bragged | brogged |
(brag)
To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, can do, or has done.
* Shakespeare
To boast of.
*Shakespeare
A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.
* Shakespeare
The thing which is boasted of.
* Milton
(by ellipsis) The card game three card brag.
First-rate.
(archaic) Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
* Ben Jonson
(brog)
To prod with a pointed instrument, such as a lance; to prick or pierce.
To broggle.
(Webster 1913)
As verbs the difference between bragged and brogged
is that bragged is (brag) while brogged is (brog).bragged
English
Verb
(head)brag
English
Verb
- to brag of one's exploits, courage, or money
- Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, / Brags of his substance, not of ornament.
- Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade
Synonyms
* boastDerived terms
* braggart * bragging rights * humblebragNoun
(en noun)- Caesar made not here his brag / Of "came", and "saw", and "overcame".
- Beauty is Nature's brag .
- (Chesterfield)
Adjective
(bragger)- a brag young fellow
References
Anagrams
* * ----brogged
English
Verb
(head)brog
English
Verb
(brogg)- (Sir Walter Scott)