Brag
A game at cards: so called because the players brag of their
cards to induce the company to make bets. The principal sport of the
game is occasioned by any player bragging that he holds a better
hand than the rest of the party, which is declared by saying “I brag,”
and staking a sum of money on the issue. (Hoyle.)
Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.
Talking is all very well, but doing is far better. Jack Brag.
A vulgar, pretentious braggart, who gets into aristocratic society,
where his vulgarity stands out in strong relief. The character is in
Theodore Hook's novel of the same name.
“He was a sort of literary Jack Brag.” —T. H. Burton.
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