单词 | out-brag |
释义 | out-ˈbrag, v. [out- 18.] trans. To outdo in bragging; to go beyond in boastful talk.
1565Golding Ovid's Met. xiii. (1593) 297 Thou all others maist outbrag. 1676Wycherley Pl. Dealer i. i. Wks. (Rtldg.) 107/2 To out-flatter a dull poet,..outpromise a lover, outrail a wit, and outbrag a sea-captain. 1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville (1849) 181 They..tried to outbrag and out⁓lie each other. 1886All Year Round 4 Sept. 103. b. fig. To exceed in pride of beauty.
1597Shakes. Lover's Compl. 95 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. |

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