windbag

English

Etymology

From Middle English wyndbagge, equivalent to wind +‎ bag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɪndˌbæɡ/

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• Hyphenation: wind‧bag
• Rhymes: -æɡ

Noun

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."

Synonyms

• (person): gasbag, bag of wind, bloviator; see also Thesaurus:chatterbox

Translations

someone who talks excessively

• Bulgarian: бърборко (bg) m (bǎrborko)
• Czech: tlachal m, žvanil m, tlučhuba (cs) m
• Danish: sludrechatol n, sladdertaske c
• Dutch: windbuil (nl) m
• Finnish: suupaltti (fi)
• French: moulin à paroles (fr) m
• Galician: falabarato (gl) m
• Georgian: ყბედი (q̇bedi), ენაჭარტალა (enač̣arṭala)
• German: Schwätzer (de) m, Schwätzerin (de) f, Schwafler m, Schwaflerin f, Plaudertasche (de) f
• Greek: αερολόγος (el) m (aerológos)
• Icelandic: vindbelgur m
• Irish: bromaire m
• Italian: parolaio (it) m
• Macedonian: бр́борко m (bŕborko)
• Maori: arero kapekapetau (an idiom), pukukōrero
• Old Church Slavonic: блѧдь m (blędĭ)
• Russian: трепло́ (ru) n (trepló)

Verb

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

1. To talk pompously or excessively.

Anagrams

• bawding, dawbing