Synonyms: brag, bragging, vaporing, crow, crowing, line-shooting, gasconade
Definition: an instance of boastful talk
Usage: his brag is worse than his fight; whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade
Similar words: boast, boasting, jactitation, self-praise
Definition: speaking of yourself in superlatives
Synonyms: brag, blow, bluster, boast, shoot a line, vaunt, swash, tout, gas, gasconade
Definition: show off
Similar words: exaggerate, amplify, magnify, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overdraw, overstate
Definition: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
Usage: tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery