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Bags vs Brags - What's the difference?

bags | brags |

As verbs the difference between bags and brags

is that bags is to reserve for oneself while brags is third-person singular of brag.

As a noun bags

is plural of lang=en.

bags

English

Etymology 1

From

Alternative forms

* baggs

Verb

(es)
  • (Australia, New Zealand) To reserve for oneself.
  • * 2006 , Jill Golden, Inventing Beatrice , page 81,
    • So you were thrilled, and we picked out the mare for Harriet, and you bagsed the black, and I had the chestnut, and we all rode away one day.
  • * 2007 , Debra Oswald. Getting Air , page 66,
    • Mum bagsed being the priestess who got to dangle Stone over the volcano by his ankles.
  • * 2008 , Kate Dellar-Evans, Best of Friends: The First Thirty Years of the Friendly Street Poets , page 13,
    • Battered armchairs and a sofa were bagsed first; they were more comfortable than the school chairs that could get hard.
  • * 2009 , J. Lodge, Black Mail , page 316,
    • ‘Hey, it?s my turn in the front,’ Kalista called as she realised her brother had bagsed the front seat.
    Synonyms
    * (US) have dibs on

    Etymology 2

    From bag .

    Noun

    (head)
  • (uncountable) Eye circles.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (bag)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    brags

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (brag)

    • Anagrams

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    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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