outbrag
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]outbrag (third-person singular simple present outbrags, present participle outbragging, simple past and past participle outbragged)
- (transitive) To surpass in bragging.
- (transitive, obsolete) To surpass in beauty or splendor.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
- Like vnſhorne veluet, on that termleſſe ſkin
Whoſe bare out-brag'd the web it ſeem'd to were.
References
[edit]- “outbrag”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.