1. Exhibiting self-importance
   "bragging talk";
   - boastful, braggart, braggy [informal], big, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandizing, self-aggrandising [Brit]

1. An instance of boastful talk
   "his bragging is worse than his fight";
   - brag, crow, crowing, vaporing [US], gasconade [archaic], vapouring [Brit, Cdn]

1. Show off, esp. with exaggeration
   "He was always bragging about his athletic achievements";
   - boast, swash [archaic], shoot a line [informal], gas [informal], blow [informal], bluster, vaunt, gasconade [archaic], skite [Austral, NZ, informal]

Derived forms: braggings

See also: proud

Type of: amplify, boast, boasting, exaggerate, hyperbolise [Brit], hyperbolize, jactitation, magnify, overdraw, overstate, self-praise, skite [Austral, NZ, informal]

Encyclopedia: Bragging