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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Gascon, bluster, boast, boastful, boastfulness, boasting, bombast, brag, braggadocio, braggart, braggartism, bravado, conceit, conceited, fanfaron, fanfaronade, fanfaronading, gasconade, gasconading, gasconism, heroics, jactation, jactitation, rodomontade, self-advertising, self-applauding, self-flattering, self-glorious, self-lauding, self-vaunting, side, swagger, thrasonic, thrasonical, vain, vainglorious, vanity, vaporing, vaunt, vauntery, vaunting
Dictionary Results for bragging:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
bragging
    adj 1: exhibiting self-importance; "big talk" [syn: boastful,
           braggart(a), bragging(a), braggy, big,
           cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandizing, self-
           aggrandising]
    n 1: an instance of boastful talk; "his brag is worse than his
         fight"; "whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade"
         [syn: brag, bragging, crow, crowing, vaporing,
         line-shooting, gasconade]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Brag \Brag\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bragged; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Bragging.] [OE. braggen to resound, blow, boast (cf. F.
   braguer to lead a merry life, flaunt, boast, OF. brague
   merriment), from Icel. braka to creak, brak noise, fr. the
   same root as E. break; properly then, to make a noise, boast.
   ?95.]
   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.
   [1913 Webster]

         Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
         Brags of his substance, not of ornament. --Shak.
   [1913 Webster]

   Syn: To swagger; boast; vapor; bluster; vaunt; flourish; talk
        big.
        [1913 Webster]

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