blow-hard

[bloh-hahrd]

noun

Slang.

1. an exceptionally boastful and talkative person.

Word History and Origins

Origin of blow-hard¹

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

Example Sentences

That may now begin to change, with the blow-hard state-run tabloid, The Global Times, true to form in being the first to up the ante, with the talk of retaking Taiwan by force, or of arming America's foes.

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“You can be a schemer or a blow-hard in this business and it works for awhile, but my strength was finding a story line for a fight and selling it.”

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Is it any wonder that “trump” means both to surpass and beat, triumph, but also to cheat, deceive the eyes, to trumpet, blow-hard and even play-the-fool?

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None of the elites saw Hurricane Donnie coming, and with the blow-hard now raging at full force, the GOP’s upper-crusters still don’t seem to know what hit them, much less what to do about it.

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That is why Mr Trump’s demagoguery, occasioned as much by a bad poll for the blow-hard in Iowa as the massacre in California, is so dangerous, as well as wrong.

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