windbag
Syllables: wind·bag/ˈwɪndˌbæɡ/
windbag noun: someone who talks excessively.
Noun
windbag (plural windbags)
- Someone who talks excessively.
- Some windbag. Hell, ain't I seen your kind before? ... Some bag of wind. You're just hot air, that's all.1964, Jesse Hill Ford, The conversion of Buster Drumwright, page 111
- "Do you hear that, Ryan? Your mommy is being a pontificating windbag."2014 January 16, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 482 - Blood
- The lungs.
- Bellows for an organ.
Verb
windbag (third-person singular simple present windbags, present participle windbagging, simple past and past participle windbagged)
- To talk pompously or excessively.
Synonyms of windbag
Forms of windbag
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | windbags |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | windbags |
| present participle | windbagging |
| past participle | windbagged |
| past | windbagged |
Origin of windbag
From Middle English wyndbagge, equivalent to wind + bag.
Words that rhyme with windbag
Questions about windbag
- What does windbag mean?
- Windbag means someone who talks excessively.
- What part of speech is windbag?
- Windbag can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce windbag?
- Windbag is pronounced /ˈwɪndˌbæɡ/.
- What is the plural of windbag?
- The plural of windbag is windbags.
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