windbag
Informal.Also called bag of wind [wind] /wɪnd/ . an empty, voluble, pretentious talker.
the bag of a bagpipe.
Origin of windbag
1Other words from windbag
- wind·bag·ger·y, noun
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How to use windbag in a sentence
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?
The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley | Bertram MitfordAnd Mr. Spurgeon was no windbag—vox et præterea nihil; no darling pet of old women whose Christianity was flabby as an oyster.
Christopher Crayon's Recollections | J. Ewing RitchieShowed 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.
Falling in Love | Grant AllenA regular braggart and empty windbag, he had taken but one good care, and that was of his own skin.
El Dorado | Baroness Orczy
British Dictionary definitions for windbag
/ (ˈwɪndˌbæɡ) /
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
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