To boast of something.
To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done; often as an attempt to popularize oneself.
Excellent; first-rate.
A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.
The thing which is boasted of.
The card game three card brag.
To announce or precede; to be a harbinger of.
A person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something.