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BNC: 44804 COCA: 38503

windbag

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
windbag /ˈwɪndˌbæg/ noun
plural windbags
windbag
/ˈwɪndˌbæg/
noun
plural windbags
Learner's definition of WINDBAG
[count] informal + disapproving
: a person who talks too much夸夸其谈的人
BNC: 44804 COCA: 38503

windbag

noun

wind·​bag ˈwin(d)-ˌbag How to pronounce windbag (audio)
: an exhaustively talkative person

Example Sentences

with a windbag like that, who needs a wind farm to meet our energy needs?
Recent Examples on the Web But to some ears, Bross’ pitch sounded like the stump speech of a windbag politician: long on purple prose, short on facts. Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 3 Mar. 2022 More: How Rand Paul went from calling Donald Trump an 'orange windbag' to being a devout discipleThat put all eyes on Murkowski, whose vote could have forced a 50-50 tie. Ben Tobin, The Courier-Journal, 31 Jan. 2020 Some combination of deliberate tactics and the unprecedented loathing of his opponents causes anything bombastic, silly, or overly self-centered to be played up and employed to reinforce the caricature of him as a blustering, narcissistic windbag. Conrad Black, National Review, 11 Sep. 2019 Göring does not seem to care about anything, that windbag. Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 6 July 2018 Are Douthat, Robin, and others right in dismissing Trump as just a windbag? Jeet Heer, New Republic, 12 Feb. 2018 Even that old windbag Polonius, played by Robert Joy, is less a bombastic grandstander than a dry-as-dust martinet. Ben Brantley, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018 For the seventh time in 13 years, a hurricane is trying to re-arrange the Tigers' season, this one a waterlogged windbag named Harvey, who supposedly will be emptying himself over Houston and south Texas through next Wednesday. Ron Higgins, NOLA.com, 27 Aug. 2017 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1827, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of windbag was in 1827
BNC: 44804 COCA: 38503

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