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blowhard

noun

blow·​hard ˈblō-ˌhärd How to pronounce blowhard (audio)
plural blowhards
: an arrogantly and pompously boastful or opinionated person : braggart, windbag
… was trapped in a hellish marriage to … a struttingly insensitive macho blowhard. Owen Gleiberman
But he was seen by many in Congress as a blowhard, given to long-winded talks bristling with allusions to the Bible, ancient history, and the Constitution. Thomas E. Ricks

Example Sentences

a politician who is the stereotypical backslapping blowhard a blowhard who always had to act like she was better than anyone else
Recent Examples on the Web Forced to spend extended quality time with this aging blowhard, Tony’s patience reaches its limit. Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 July 2022 His bluff, naive, blowhard innocence is pitch perfect, at once deadpan and winking. Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2022 The president of the United States is a blowhard — again. Rich Lowry, National Review, 1 June 2022 His actions bespeak a prime-time TV blowhard who understands how objectionable his rhetoric has become. Washington Post, 6 May 2022 That’s the argument, anyway—and it’s advanced by athletes, coaches, cable-news pundits, blowhard musicians, and more. Jason Feifer, Men's Health, 30 Apr. 2022 The man’s an oblivious, ignorant, overconfident blowhard. Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 2 Mar. 2022 Stan plays the character as an entitled blowhard who ignites Gauthier’s class fury and masculine jealousy. Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022 Jesse, a hedonist blowhard who’s mulling a takeover; Kelvin (Adam Devine), an earnest youth minister; and Judy (the incredible Edi Patterson), the lone daughter, undervalued by Eli because of her gender. Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1848, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of blowhard was in 1848

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