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Bragger

Definition: Bragger

Bragger

Noun

1. A very boastful and talkative person.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bragger" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)


Synonyms: Bragger

Synonyms: blowhard (n), boaster (n), braggart (n), line-shooter (n), vaunter (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Bragger

Specialty definitions using "bragger": Lie Direct. (references)

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Modern Usage: Bragger

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket. (Shirley Valentine; writing credit: Willy Russell)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bragger

Language Translations for "bragger"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Farsi 

  

لافزن (Braggart, Vainglorious), خودستا (Bravado, Vainglorious). (various references)

   

German

  

prahler (boaster, bouncer, braggart, bravado, swaggerer, swaggerers). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aggerbray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Bragger

Derivations

Words beginning with "bragger": braggers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Bragger" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bargger, bergader, Blager, blagger, blagget, braga, Bragar, bragel, bragen, braggard, Breger, brger, Brigge, Broger, bruger, Bruggen, Brugger, cragger, Ibragim. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Bragger"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "bragger" (pronounced bra"ger)
3-a" g erdagger, Jagger, stagger, swagger.

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Anagrams: Bragger

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-g-r-r"

-1 letter: bagger, beggar.

-2 letters: agger, barer, barge, barre, eggar, gager, rebar.

-3 letters: ager, bare, bear, berg, brae, brag, gage, garb, gear, grab, rage, rare, rear.

-4 letters: age, arb, are, bag, bar, beg, bra, brr, ear, egg, era, erg, err, gab, gae, gag, gar, rag, reb, reg.

-5 letters: ab, ae, ag, ar, ba, be, er, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-g-g-r-r"
 

+1 letter: braggers, braggier.

 

+3 letters: budgerigar.

 

+4 letters: budgerigars, gingerbread.

 

+5 letters: carpetbagger, gingerbreads, gingerbready, harbingering.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Bragger


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 72 61 67 67 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-.    .-    --.    --.    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01110010 01100001 01100111 01100111 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#114 &#97 &#103 &#103 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0072 0061 0067 0067 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36846773737184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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