[f. BRAG v. + -ING2.] That brags; boastful, swaggering, etc.
1530. Palsgr., 306/2. Braggyng, brague.
1649. Roberts, Clavis Bibl., 140. That proud bragging Gyant Goliath.
1700. Dryden, Cock & Fox, 134. No bragging coxcomb, yet no baffled knight.
c. 1815. Jane Austen, Northang. Abb. (1833), II. xv. 207. They were … a forward, bragging, scheming race.
