Also 4–7 -ar. [f. BRAG v. + -ER1.] One who brags; a boaster or blusterer.

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1362.  Langl., P. Pl., A. VII. 142. To Pers þe plouh Mon [one] profrede his gloue, A Brutiner, A Braggere.

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c. 1530.  H. Rhodes, Bk. Nurture, in Babees Bk. (1868), 103. Be … no busy bragger of the vertues with the which thou art indued.

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1663.  Killigrew, Parson’s Wed., I. i. in Dodsley (1780), XI. 377. Nothing shall privilege your bragger’s tongue to abuse me.

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1830.  Galt, Lawrie T., I. vi. (1849), 19. The figure of the bragger set all present into a roar of laughter.

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