out-bragv.
/ˌaʊtˈbraɡ/, U.S. /ˌaʊtˈbræɡ/ 1. transitive. To outdo in bragging; to intimidate with boastful threats.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > utter boastfully [verb (transitive)] > boast more than
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1545 Bp. S. Gardiner Let. 7 Nov. (1933) 179 But the French men, they pourpose to outbrage us with numbre.
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xiii. f. 159 Thou all others mayst outbrag.
a1639 J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (1655) 233 He would not have justice outbragged.
1677 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer i. 9 To out-flatter a dull Poet,..out-promise a Lover, out-rail a Wit, and out-brag a Sea-Captain.
1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. iii. 43 They tried to outbrag and outlie each other.
1886 All Year Round 4 Sept. 103/2 All the fellows who joined were youngsters,..each trying to outbrag the other.
1938 C. Kelly Outlaw Trail (1996) 185 Each tried to outbrag the other, and soon they became enemies.
1999 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 16 Apr. c1 Murphy's jive comes in handy when the new prisoners must outbrag some hardened killers.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > splendour > excel in splendour [verb (transitive)]
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out-brag1609
outglittera1623
outbloom1726
1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. K3 His phenix downe began but to appeare Like vnshorne veluet, on that termlesse skin Whose bare out-brag'd the web it seem'd to were.
a1896 C. Patmore Poems (1906) i. iv. 25 Under the protest of a cheek Outbragging Nature's boast the rose.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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