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Etymology

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    From windbag +‎ -y.[1]

    Adjective

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    windbaggy (comparative more windbaggy, superlative most windbaggy)

    1. Characteristic of a windbag (someone who talks excessively or pompously); tedious, long-winded.
      • 2005 November 20, Nancy Franklin, “The Spinoff Zone”, in The New Yorker[1], New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-08-01:
        He announces that it's time to check in with our friend Stephen Colbert, at which point Colbert, sitting at his own anchor desk, comes on camera and says something windbaggy and obnoxious to Stewart.

    References

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    1. ^ windbaggy, adj.”, in OED Online  , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.