Brag vs Hyperbole - What's the difference?
brag | hyperbole |
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
(uncountable) Extreme exaggeration or overstatement; especially as a literary or rhetorical device.
(uncountable) Deliberate exaggeration.
(countable) An instance or example of this technique.
(countable, obsolete) A hyperbola.
'Tis like a chime a-mending; with terms unsquar'd,
Which, from the tongue of roaring Typhon dropp'd,
Would seem hyperboles . * 1837 — *: The great staircase, however, may be termed, without much hyperbole , a feature of grandeur and magnificence. * 1841 — , ch. 28 *: "Nay - nay - good Sumach," interrupted Deerslayer, whose love of truth was too indomitable to listen to such hyperbole with patience. * 1843 — *: The honourable gentleman forces us to hear a good deal of this detestable rhetoric; and then he asks why, if the secretaries of the Nizam and the King of Oude use all these tropes and hyperboles , Lord Ellenborough should not indulge in the same sort of eloquence? * c.1910 — *: Of course the hymn has come to us from somewhere else, but I do not know from where; and the average native of our village firmly believes that it is indigenous to our own soil—which it can not be, unless it deals in hyperbole , for the nearest approach to a river in our neighborhood is the village pond. * 2001 - Tom Bentley, Daniel Stedman Jones, The Moral Universe *: The perennial problem, especially for the BBC, has been to reconcile the hyperbole -driven agenda of newspapers with the requirement of balance, which is crucial to the public service remit.
As nouns the difference between brag and hyperbole
is that brag is a boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification while hyperbole is (uncountable) extreme exaggeration or overstatement; especially as a literary or rhetorical device.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 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
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(wikipedia hyperbole)Noun
(en noun)Quotations
{{timeline, 1600s=1602, 1800s=1837 1841 1843, 1900s=1910, 2000s=2001}} * 1602 — i 3 *: ...and when he speaks'Tis like a chime a-mending; with terms unsquar'd,
Which, from the tongue of roaring Typhon dropp'd,
Would seem hyperboles . * 1837 — *: The great staircase, however, may be termed, without much hyperbole , a feature of grandeur and magnificence. * 1841 — , ch. 28 *: "Nay - nay - good Sumach," interrupted Deerslayer, whose love of truth was too indomitable to listen to such hyperbole with patience. * 1843 — *: The honourable gentleman forces us to hear a good deal of this detestable rhetoric; and then he asks why, if the secretaries of the Nizam and the King of Oude use all these tropes and hyperboles , Lord Ellenborough should not indulge in the same sort of eloquence? * c.1910 — *: Of course the hymn has come to us from somewhere else, but I do not know from where; and the average native of our village firmly believes that it is indigenous to our own soil—which it can not be, unless it deals in hyperbole , for the nearest approach to a river in our neighborhood is the village pond. * 2001 - Tom Bentley, Daniel Stedman Jones, The Moral Universe *: The perennial problem, especially for the BBC, has been to reconcile the hyperbole -driven agenda of newspapers with the requirement of balance, which is crucial to the public service remit.