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Etymology edit

From Middle English wyndbagge, equivalent to wind +‎ bag.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈwɪndˌbæɡ/
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  • Hyphenation: wind‧bag
  • Rhymes: -æɡ

Noun edit

windbag (plural windbags)

  1. (archaic) Bellows for an organ.
  2. (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."

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Verb edit

windbag (third-person singular simple present windbags, present participle windbagging, simple past and past participle windbagged)

  1. To talk pompously or excessively.

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