outbrag

English

Etymology

Verb

outbrag (third-person singular simple present outbrags, present participle outbragging, simple past and past participle outbragged)

(transitive) To surpass in bragging.
(transitive) 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “outbrag”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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