outbrag

English

Etymology

out- +‎ brag

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To surpass in bragging.
2. (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

• “outbrag”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.