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Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 23 Jan. 2024
Be sociable with everyone and see the braggarts less often.
—Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 18 Aug. 2023
Mullin, a former CEO who is heralded as an undefeated Mixed-Martial-Arts champ through all three contests he’s joined, has been a braggart on social media about it after the union boss called him a fraud in a tweet.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 29 June 2023
Imagine if the generative AI was programmed to be a braggart.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
Yet, while there are more Texans than Alaskans, there have always been far more non-Texans, many of whom are very open to any excuse to poke fun at a state long known for its braggarts.
—David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2023
Nobody likes a braggart.
—Rachel Feintzeig, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2023
Sonny Barger, the bigger-than-life godfather of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, equal parts brawler, bully, braggart, rule breaker and shrewd huckster of his own outlaw mystique, has died at 83.
—Paul W. Valentine, Washington Post, 30 June 2022
Both stateside and abroad, Neri was a workhorse but never a braggart.
—Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2021
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Word History
in part from brag entry 1 + -art, in part borrowed from Middle French bragard "excessively proud," from braguer "to be proud," derivative of brague "liveliness, boastfulness," perhaps from bragues "breeches, leggings" — more at bracket entry 1
circa 1577, in the meaning defined above
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“Braggart.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/braggart. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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