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Brag English Meaning French Braggart Related 8195.Brag 英

正面 8195.brag
英 [bræg]美

背面
释义:
n. 吹牛,自夸vi. 吹牛,自夸vt. 吹牛,吹嘘n. (Brag)人名;(瑞典)布拉格
例句:
1. Don't brag about what you're going to do . Get something done.先别吹, 做出具体成绩来再说.

1. flickr.com 闪烁的画面、闪烁的屏幕,形容 Screens. Images. Candles. Etc.2. 屏幕成像、屏幕实时显示图像的原理就在于不断闪烁。3. flick-拍打、振翅 => fl- => fly, flight, flop, flip, flick, flicker <== blow.4. 谐音“拂你看儿”。
brag 吹嘘拟声词。
bragbrag: [13] Brag first turned up in English as an adjective, meaning ‘spirited’ or ‘boastful’; the verb and noun did not appear until the 14th century. Where English got the word from, however, remains a mystery. French has braguer ‘brag’, but it is not clear whether English borrowed from French, or vice versa; French did, however, contribute the derivative bragard, which English adopted as braggart [16]. This probably also formed the basis of braggadocio, an Italianate coinage first used by the poet Edmund Spenser as a personification of ‘boastfulness’ in his Faerie Queene 1590.brag (n.)late 14c., "pomp; arrogance, pride;" see brag (v.); the exact relationship of the forms is uncertain. Meaning "that which is boasted" is from 1530s. As a once-popular poker-like card game, from 1734.brag (v.)mid-14c., braggen "to make a loud sound," also "to talk boastfully," of obscure origin, perhaps related to bray of a trumpet, or related to the Middle English adjective brag "ostentatious, proud; spirited, brave" (early 14c.), which probably is from Celtic. Other sources suggest Old Norse bragr "the best, the toast (of anything)," also "poetry." Also see braggart for another possibility. Related: Bragged; bragging."

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