windbag
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English wyndbagge, equivalent to wind + bag.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
windbag (plural windbags)
- (archaic) Bellows for an organ.
- (mildly derogatory) Someone who talks excessively.
- 1964, Jesse Hill Ford, The conversion of Buster Drumwright, page 111:
- Some windbag. Hell, ain't I seen your kind before? ... Some bag of wind. You're just hot air, that's all.
- 2014 January 16, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 482 - Blood:
- "Do you hear that, Ryan? Your mommy is being a pontificating windbag."
Synonyms edit
- (person): gasbag, bag of wind, bloviator; see also Thesaurus:chatterbox
Translations edit
someone who talks excessively
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Verb edit
windbag (third-person singular simple present windbags, present participle windbagging, simple past and past participle windbagged)
- To talk pompously or excessively.