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windbag
[ wind-bag ]
noun
- Informal. Also called bag of wind [wind]. an empty, voluble, pretentious talker.
- the bag of a bagpipe.
windbag
/ ˈwɪndˌbæɡ /
noun
- slang.a voluble person who has little of interest to communicate
- the bag in a set of bagpipes, which provides a continuous flow of air to the pipes
Other Words From
- wind·bag·ger·y noun
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
He called her “a silly chattering windbag, an infernal liar, a conceited, gushing, rump-wagging, blethering ass.”
He can still come off like a windbag with a know-it-all air.
Since when has the son of a chief learnt to talk with the loud tongue and windbag swagger of the Amabuna?
And Mr. Spurgeon was no windbag—vox et præterea nihil; no darling pet of old women whose Christianity was flabby as an oyster.
Showed what Sexton can do when so deeply moved as to forget himself, and resist besetting temptation to play the fatal windbag.
Carlyle thought Darwin a poor creature, and Comte regarded Hegel himself as an empty windbag.
A regular braggart and empty windbag, he had taken but one good care, and that was of his own skin.
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