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# brag

«brag» in Mova's school dictionary: **to talk proudly about yourself, what you have or what you…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (brag, brags, bragged, bragging); noun (a brag)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To brag is to talk proudly about yourself, what you have or what you did, in a way that annoys others. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brag/#m1)

2) A brag is such a boast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brag/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in friendship stories and lessons about kindness and good manners; phrases «brag about», «bragging rights».

### examples

- Stop bragging about your new bike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brag/#x1)
- He bragged that he scored all the goals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brag/#x2)
- Nobody likes it when you brag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brag/#x3)
- The winners had bragging rights for a week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brag/#x4)
- She never brags, even though she is top of the class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brag/#x5)
- «I'm the fastest!» was his usual brag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brag/#x6)
- Boasters brag most when they cannot be detected. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brag/#x7)

### note

Double the g: bragged, bragging. Similar: boast, show off. A person who brags is a braggart (old) or «show-off».

### In the corpora

- [Anya didn't mean to brag; she just didn't realise how different her holidays are.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «brag» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brag/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.