bragger

I don't believe a single syllable he says: I never met such a bragger.

Father laughs to hear about Old Wonder Boy, and he says a bragger ought to be laughed at, and bragging is a bad thing.

The people called him "Bragger;" and Arne knew that in bygone days, Nils, the tailor, had treated him badly.

A piece of timber projecting in the same way was called a tassel or a bragger.