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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 brag /ˈbræg/
 (v.)吹噓,吹牛,誇耀,自誇

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Brag v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bragged p. pr. & vb. n. Bragging.]  To talk about one's self, or things pertaining to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boastfully; to boast; -- often followed by of; as, to brag of one's exploits, courage, or money, or of the great things one intends to do.
 Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
 Brags of his substance, not of ornament.   --Shak.
 Syn: -- To swagger; boast; vapor; bluster; vaunt; flourish; talk big.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Brag, v. t. To boast of. [Obs.]

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Brag, n.
 1. A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretense or self glorification.
 Cæsar . . . made not here his brag
 Of “came,” and “saw,” and “overcame.”   --Shak.
 2. The thing which is boasted of.
    Beauty is Nature's brag.   --Milton.
 3. A game at cards similar to bluff.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Brag a.  Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited. [Archaic]
    A brag young fellow.   --B. Jonson.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Brag, adv. Proudly; boastfully. [Obs.]
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 brag
      adj : exceptionally good; "a boss hand at carpentry"; "his brag
            cornfield" [syn: boss]
      n : an instance of boastful talk; "his brag is worse than his
          fight"; "whenever he won we were exposed to his
          gasconade" [syn: bragging, crow, crowing, vaporing,
           line-shooting, gasconade]
      v : show off [syn: boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, gas,
           blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade]
      [also: bragging, bragged]