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braggart

/brag-ert/US // ˈbræg ərt //UK // (ˈbræɡət) //

夸夸其谈,夸夸其谈的人,夸夸其谈者,夸夸其谈的家伙

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who does a lot of bragging.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : bragging; boastful.

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Examples

  • Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, who probably is the smartest person on her block, has fun in her latest video skewering the scientific braggart.

  • Sometimes being a great braggart isn’t about how much money you got.

  • It seems the braggart was unaware of the changes in the law.

  • One of us had even claimed to be present at Castra Regina, although we mainly considered him a braggart.

  • In the book, Alice is a smug, Victorian braggart who loves nothing more than showing off her knowledge.

  • He had never been a braggart; his hostility had always been lazy and cynical.

  • Richard sent a shaft through the very heart of this braggart Turk.

  • But the Huguenot generals evidently imagined that there was nothing in the speech beyond the prating of a silly braggart.

  • She would not marry a coward or a braggart, even if he were the owner of ten thousand acres.

  • Perhaps it was for the cowardice he had displayed in action, for he was an arrant coward and braggart.