braggart
\ BRAG-ert \ , noun;
1.a person who does a lot of bragging.
adjective:
1.bragging; boastful.
Quotes:
The sculptors of those days had stocks of such funereal emblems in hand; as you may see still on the walls of St. Paul's, which are covered with hundreds of these braggart heathen allegories.
-- William Makepeace Thackeray, "Vanity Fair," 1848
"But there are ways to prevent thee, young braggart ," returned the esquire. "And there is a power," replied the youth, "to avenge the cause of wronged innocence."
-- Francis Lathom, "The Castle of Ollada," 1795
Origin:
Braggart entered English in the 1500s. It finds its roots in the French term braguer meaning "to brag."
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