bramarbasieren

== German == === Etymology === Bramarbas (“figure in a satire by B. Mencke (1710)”) +‎ -ieren; that name was used by Johann Christoph Gottsched for the protagonist in his German translation (1741) of the comedy Jacob von Thyboe by Ludvig Holberg. bramarbasieren is first attested in Christian Fürchtegott Gellert's treatise on good taste. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bʁamaʁbaˈziːʁən/ Hyphenation: bra‧mar‧ba‧sie‧ren === Verb === bramarbasieren (weak, third-person singular present bramarbasiert, past tense bramarbasierte, past participle bramarbasiert, auxiliary haben) (intransitive, literary, derogatory, dated) to brag Synonyms: angeben, aufschneiden, prahlen ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === Bramarbas on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de “bramarbasieren” in Duden online “bramarbasieren” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache