windbag

[ wind-bag ]

noun

1. Informal. Also called bag of wind [wind]. an empty, voluble, pretentious talker.
2. the bag of a bagpipe.

windbag

/ ˈwɪndˌbæɡ /

noun

1. slang.
   a voluble person who has little of interest to communicate
2. 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

Origin of windbag¹

A late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; wind ¹, bag

Example Sentences

He called her “a silly chattering windbag, an infernal liar, a conceited, gushing, rump-wagging, blethering ass.”

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He can still come off like a windbag with a know-it-all air.

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Since when has the son of a chief learnt to talk with the loud tongue and windbag swagger of the Amabuna?

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And Mr. Spurgeon was no windbag—vox et præterea nihil; no darling pet of old women whose Christianity was flabby as an oyster.

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Showed what Sexton can do when so deeply moved as to forget himself, and resist besetting temptation to play the fatal windbag.

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Carlyle thought Darwin a poor creature, and Comte regarded Hegel himself as an empty windbag.

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A regular braggart and empty windbag, he had taken but one good care, and that was of his own skin.

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