braggie

English

Etymology

brag +‎ -ie; compare selfie.

Pronunciation

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Noun

braggie (plural braggies)

1. (slang) A photo shared on a social media network with the sole intention of making one's friends/followers jealous.
   • 2013 November 21, Lizzie Porter, “Forget the 'selfie': holidaymakers go for 'braggie' photos”, in The Telegraph:

     The Oxford Dictionary may have named “selfie” the word of the year for 2013, but British tourists are using their holiday photographs as “braggies” to boast about their travels to friends and family on social media

   • 2013 November 21, Victoria Woollaston, “Forget selfies - it's all about the 'BRAGGIE': One in three upload photos to social networks just to show off”, in Daily Mail:

     The most popular form of braggies were by the pool, beach or surrounding areas (43 per cent), drinking cocktails (12 per cent) or pulling a ‘sparrowface’ or ‘duckface pose (3 per cent) which is the trend of pouting at the camera.

   • 2014 December 28, Aditi Pancholi And Dipti, “Get, set and brag”, in The Asian Age:

     She says, “Apart from boasting about the exotic locations that you went to, braggies are a good way of documenting your trips. […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:braggie.

Anagrams

• baggier