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Adjective bragging has 1 sense
- boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy, big, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandizing, self-aggrandising - exhibiting self-importance; "big talk"
Antonym: humble (indirect, via proud)
Noun bragging has 1 sense
- brag, bragging, crow, crowing, vaporing, line-shooting, gasconade - an instance of boastful talk; "his brag is worse than his fight"; "whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade"
--1 is a kind of boast, boasting, self-praise, jactitation
Verb brag has 1 sense
- boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade - show off
--1 is one way to overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, magnify, amplify
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Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Somebody ----s to somebody
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