Bragged vs Cragged - What's the difference?
bragged | cragged |
(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
Having crags
* {{quote-book, year=1658, author=Isaac Barrow, title=Sermons on Evil-Speaking, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Is not the plain way more easy than the rough and cragged ? is not the fair way more pleasant and passable than the foul? }}
* {{quote-book, year=1834, author=Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, title=The Last Days of Pompeii, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Over the broadest there seemed to spring a cragged and stupendous arch, from which, as from the jaws of hell, gushed the sources of the sudden Phlegethon. }}
As a verb bragged
is (brag).As an adjective cragged is
having crags.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
* * ----cragged
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