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brags

/bɹæɡz/

brags is the third-person singular simple present indicative of brag.

Meaning of brag

Verb

brag (third-person singular simple present brags, present participle bragging, simple past and past participle bragged)

  1. (intransitive, often, with-of) To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done; often as an attempt to popularize oneself.
    • to brag of one’s exploits, courage, or money
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To act in an arrogant or boastful manner.
    • The dead mans corps hath made ſome Serpents weépe, / Such rewth may ryſe in beaſts of bloudy race: / And yet can man (which bragges aboue the reſt) / Uſe wracke for rewth? can murder like him beſt?1575, Jacques du Fouilloux, “The Hare, to the Hunter”, in George Gascoigne, transl., The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting. […], London: […] Thomas Purfoot, published 1611, →OCLC, page 177

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Questions about brags

What is brags the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Brags is the third-person singular simple present indicative of brag.
How do you pronounce brags?
Brags is pronounced /bɹæɡz/.

Words near brags in the dictionary

  1. braggy
  2. bragless
  3. bragot
  4. bragozzo
  5. bragozzos
  6. brags
  7. brags on
  8. braguette
  9. braguettes
  10. braguinha
  11. braguinhas

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