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bragging

Syllables: brag·ging/ˈbɹæɡ.ɪŋ/

bragging noun: the act of one who brags. Also the present participle and gerund of brag.

Noun

bragging (plural braggings)

  1. The act of one who brags.
    • […] there was a glint of amused contempt in his black eyes — contempt, as if he listened to the braggings of children.1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC

Also used as

bragging is also the present participle and gerund of brag.

bragging meaning in Kannada

bragging in Kannada

ಬಡಾಯಿ, ಬಡಾಯಿ ಹೊಡೆಯುವುದು

Forms of bragging

pluralbraggings

Words formed from bragging

Phrases with bragging

Words that rhyme with bragging

Questions about bragging

What does bragging mean?
Bragging means the act of one who brags.
What is bragging in Kannada?
Bragging in Kannada is ಬಡಾಯಿ, ಬಡಾಯಿ ಹೊಡೆಯುವುದು. See Bragging meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is bragging?
Bragging is a noun.
How do you pronounce bragging?
Bragging is pronounced /ˈbɹæɡ.ɪŋ/.
What is the plural of bragging?
The plural of bragging is braggings.

Words near bragging in the dictionary

  1. braggier
  2. braggies
  3. braggiest
  4. braggin'
  5. bragginess
  6. bragging
  7. bragging on
  8. bragging rights
  9. braggingly
  10. braggings
  11. braggish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bragging (page history and authors); bragging (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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