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brag
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)
- A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.
- The thing which is boasted of.
- (by ellipsis) The card game three card brag.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chesterfield to this entry?)
Derived terms
- bragless
Translations
Verb
brag (third-person singular simple present brags, present participle bragging, simple past and past participle bragged)
- (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.
- (transitive) To boast of.
Synonyms
- boast
Hyponyms
- brag on
Derived terms
- braggard
- humblebrag
Related terms
- bragging rights
Translations
Adjective
brag (comparative bragger, superlative braggest)
- Excellent; first-rate.
- (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)
- (obsolete) proudly; boastfully
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)
References
Anagrams
- ARGB, garb, grab
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse brak.
Noun
brag n (singular definite braget, plural indefinite brag)
- bang, crash
Inflection
Related terms
- brage verb
Verb
brag
- 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)
- (Föhr-Amrum) bridge
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skite
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ska?t/
Etymology 1
From Middle English skyt, skytte, skytt, from Old Norse skítr (“dung, faeces”), from Proto-Germanic *sk?taz, *skitiz. Cognate with Old English s?ite (“dung”). Doublet of shit and shite.
Noun
skite (plural skites)
- (obsolete) A sudden hit or blow; a glancing blow.
- A trick.
- A contemptible person.
- (Ireland) A drinking binge.
- (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand) One who skites; a boaster.
Verb
skite (third-person singular simple present skites, present participle skiting, simple past and past participle skited)
- (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand) To boast.
- a. 1918, “The Ragtime Army” [World War I Australian Army song], cited in Graham Seal, “The Singing Soldiers”, in Inventing Anzac: The Digger and National Mythology (UQP Australian Studies), St. Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press in association with the API Network, Australia Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, 2004, ISBN 978-0-7022-3447-7, page 53:
- You boast and skite from morn to night / And think you're very brave, / But the men who really did the job / Are dead and in their graves.
- a. 1918, “The Ragtime Army” [World War I Australian Army song], cited in Graham Seal, “The Singing Soldiers”, in Inventing Anzac: The Digger and National Mythology (UQP Australian Studies), St. Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press in association with the API Network, Australia Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, 2004, ISBN 978-0-7022-3447-7, page 53:
- (Northern Ireland) To skim or slide along a surface.
- (Scotland, slang) To slip, such as on ice.
- (Scotland, slang) To drink a large amount of alcohol.
- (archaic, vulgar) To defecate, to shit.
- 1653, François Rabelais; Thomas Urquhart, transl., “How Gargantua's Wonderful Understanding Became Known to His Father Grangousier, by the Invention of a Torchecul or Wipebreech”, in The First Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick, Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. Together with the Pantagrueline Prognostication, the Oracle of the Divine Bachus, and Response of the Bottle. Hereunto are Annexed the Navigations unto the Sounding Isle, and the Isle of the Apedefts: as likewise the Philosophical Cream with a Limosin Epistle, London: Printed [by Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, within the middle Temple-gate, OCLC 606994702; republished as The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick. Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruel: Together with the Pantagrueline Prognostication, the Oracle of the Divine Bacbuc, and Response of the Bottle: Hereunto are Annexed the Navigations unto the Sounding Isle, and the Isle of the Apedefts: as likewise the Philosophical Cream with a Limosin Epistle [...] In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Privately printed for the Navarre Society Limited, 23 New Oxford Street, W.C., [1921], OCLC 39370427, page 45:
- There is no need of wiping ones taile (said Gargantua), but when it is foule; foule it cannot be unlesse one have been a skiting; skite then we must before we wipe our tailes.
- 1653, François Rabelais; Thomas Urquhart, transl., “How Gargantua's Wonderful Understanding Became Known to His Father Grangousier, by the Invention of a Torchecul or Wipebreech”, in The First Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick, Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. Together with the Pantagrueline Prognostication, the Oracle of the Divine Bachus, and Response of the Bottle. Hereunto are Annexed the Navigations unto the Sounding Isle, and the Isle of the Apedefts: as likewise the Philosophical Cream with a Limosin Epistle, London: Printed [by Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, within the middle Temple-gate, OCLC 606994702; republished as The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick. Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruel: Together with the Pantagrueline Prognostication, the Oracle of the Divine Bacbuc, and Response of the Bottle: Hereunto are Annexed the Navigations unto the Sounding Isle, and the Isle of the Apedefts: as likewise the Philosophical Cream with a Limosin Epistle [...] In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Privately printed for the Navarre Society Limited, 23 New Oxford Street, W.C., [1921], OCLC 39370427, page 45:
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
skite (plural skites)
- Alternative spelling of skete
Anagrams
- Kites, kites, steik, stike, tikes
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Verb
skite (present tense skit, past tense skeit, supine skite, past participle skiten, present participle skitande, imperative skit)
- Alternative form of skita
Etymology 2
Adjective
skite
- neuter singular of skiten
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian sk?ta, from Proto-Germanic *sk?tan?, from Proto-Indo-European *skeyd- (“to part with, separate, cut off”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?skit?/
Verb
skite
- to shit
Inflection
Related terms
- skyt
Further reading
- “skite (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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