different between brag vs rodomontade

English

Etymology

From Middle English braggen (“to make a loud noise; to speak boastfully”) of unknown origin. Possibly related to the Middle English adjective brag (“prideful; spirited”), which is probably of Celtic origin; or from Old Norse bragr (“best; foremost; poetry”); or through Old English from Old Norse braka (“to creak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?æ?/
• Hyphenation: brag
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

brag (plural brags)

1. A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.
2. The thing which is boasted of.
3. (by ellipsis) The card game three card brag.

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Derived terms

• bragless

Translations

Verb

brag (third-person singular simple present brags, present participle bragging, simple past and past participle bragged)

1. (intransitive) To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done; often as an attempt to popularize oneself.

2. (transitive) To boast of.

Synonyms

• boast

Hyponyms

• brag on

Derived terms

• braggard
• humblebrag

Related terms

• bragging rights

Translations

Adjective

brag (comparative bragger, superlative braggest)

1. Excellent; first-rate.
2. (archaic) Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
   • 1633, Ben Jonson, A Tale of a Tub

   a woundy, brag young fellow

Adverb

brag (comparative more brag, superlative most brag)

1. (obsolete) proudly; boastfully

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References

Anagrams

• ARGB, garb, grab

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse brak.

Noun

brag n (singular definite braget, plural indefinite brag)

1. bang, crash

Inflection

Related terms

• brage verb

Verb

brag

1. imperative of brage

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian bregge, which derives from Proto-Germanic *brugj?. Cognates include West Frisian brêge.

Noun

brag f (plural bragen)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) bridge

English

Alternative forms

• rhodomontade

Etymology

From French rodomontade, a reference to Rodomonte, a character in Italian Renaissance epic poems Orlando innamorato and its sequel Orlando furioso. Compare rodomontado.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???.d?.m?n?t??d/, /???.d?.m?n?te?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???.d?.m?n?te?d/, /???.d??m?n?te?d/, /???.d?.m?n?t?d/, /???.d??m?n?t?d/

Adjective

rodomontade (comparative more rodomontade, superlative most rodomontade)

1. Pretentiously boastful.

Noun

rodomontade (countable and uncountable, plural rodomontades)

1. Vain boasting; a rant; pretentious behaviour.
   • 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover 1963, p. 67:

     He talks of her abroad as a stern and rigid master dealing with a naughty slave, though, by the look that accompanies his rhodomontade, I am convinced that at home he is the very model of "managed men."

   • 1903, Samuel Butler,The Way of All Flesh, ch 46:

     ...Euripides accuses AEschylus of being "pomp-bundle-worded," which I suppose means bombastic and given to rodomontade ...

Translations

Verb

rodomontade (third-person singular simple present rodomontades, present participle rodomontading, simple past and past participle rodomontaded)

1. To boast, brag or bluster pretentiously.