braggie

English

Etymology

From brag +‎ -ie; compare selfie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹæɡi/

• Audio (Australia):

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• Rhymes: -æɡi

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^[1], archived from the original on 11 May 2026:

     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 The Daily Mail‎^[2], archived from the original on 11 May 2026:

     A ‘braggie’ is an image posted to social networks designed purely to show off or make friends jealous, and according to new research one in ten users do this regularly. […] 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 February 9, Kasmin Fernandes, “Are braggies the new photo trend?”, in The Times of India‎^[3], archived from the original on 16 January 2017:

     Besides showing off, other reasons people gave for posting braggies were to appear more interesting and popular, and to increase the likes and comments on their social media page or wall.

   • 2014 December 28, Aditi Pancholi And Dipti, “Get, set and brag”, in The Asian Age‎^[4], archived from the original on 14 January 2015:

     She says, “Apart from boasting about the exotic locations that you went to, braggies are a good way of documenting your trips. The popular choices for braggies are by the pools or beaches, an exotic resort where you are sipping a pretty cocktail and or a slight pout facing the camera.

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

Anagrams

• baggier