Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A boaster or braggart.
Wiktionary
- n. derogatory A person who talks too much or too loudly, especially in a boastful or self-important manner.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a very boastful and talkative person.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a very boastful and talkative person
Etymologies
- blow + hard (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The government, especially with this very complex indictment, has opened it up for what I call the blowhard defense: 'He's all words, no action, and how has he benefited in any way?'" says Douglas Godfrey, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law and a former criminal defense lawyer.”
“This blowhard is what is wrong with america today.”
“How those occur in similar contexts to blowhard is opaque to me.”
“This loud mouth blowhard is dumber that a golf bag stuffed full with putters and sand wedges. pusmytits,”
““That bloviating, bully of a blowhard is so ignorant … ..””
“The word blowhard has appeared in 15 Times articles over the past year, most recently in”
“That bloviating, bully of a blowhard is so ignorant he can’t see that he is guilty in the highest degree of what he charges his enemies.”
“However my 181 post was calling a blowhard a blowhard …. could you have meant 180 and 182 instead?”
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“This is what makes me merely arrogant; otherwise, I'd be a total blowhard, which is an entirely different thing.”
“Beats calling blowhard aviation experts, I tell you true.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘blowhard’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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EN - Old Western Slang
a hog-killin' time, a lick and a promise, according to Hoyle, ace-high, all down but nine, arbuckle's, at sea, back down, balled up, bang-up, bazoo, bear sign and 212 more...
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Gapeseeds and Muckworms - Compound De...
A list of compound derogatory names such as gapeseed, muckworm and lickspittle. Your one-word contributions to this list are welcome.
See sionnach's list derogatory terms I should use ...gapeseed, muckworm, lickspittle, makeweight, bootlicker, backscratcher, apple-polisher, backslapper, brownnoser, rakeshame, yesman, freeloader and 293 more...
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
brainstorming, upside, downside, goldplating, bikeshedding, mudslinging, downgrading, headhunter, streamlining, mainstreaming, gerrymandering, frontloading and 503 more...
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Looks like a digraph, but isn't
mishap, mishear, boathouse, courthouse, chophouse, ungainly, anthill, pothole, haphazard, upholstery, hothead, upheaval and 16 more...
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kickassery
words that kick ass, in the non-literal sense
keraunophilia, vituperative, archnemesis, megafauna, Brontotherium, haruspex, vainglory, immanent, tarasque, aurochs, fraktur, photophore and 86 more...
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GRE Words
abjure, unswear, state, rescission, indemnification, ab, reny, abnegate, vitiated, vitiate, adumbrated, abash and 378 more...
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whatever1013's Words
chocolate, sesquipedalophobia, discombobulated, callipygian, retronym, squirm, cobalt blue, plethora, onomatopoeia, blowhard, strumpet, shush and 173 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Dain's Words
rabble, terminus, archaic, atavism, demiurge, waylay, syzygy, jocoserious, quark, entropy, cinnabar, shamble and 912 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, B
bloviate, bejesus, brouhaha, behoove, bodacious, bamboozle, banshee, bub, bolus, blob, bubbly, bleb and 414 more...
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Vocalublary Awareness
Words I need to use more to increase my vocabulary.
incredulous, prolific, ubiquitous, egregious, aplomb, resilience, persevere, punctilious, perspicacious, inordinate, articulate, enunciate and 199 more...
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random
words I read but don't know
nascent, proxy, desultory, charlatan, churlish, emaciated, gaudy, shill, lurid, frisson, marauding, plunder and 610 more...
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One more switchback
Tip of the hat to Stephen, who always tells me "only one more switchback" as we go up the trail. Usually it is a lie, but it still works!
switchback, heavens to murgat..., prosody, catarrh, ice storm, existential, predicament, intermingle, comingle, stolid, zeitgeist, bibliophage and 146 more...
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ash
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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MY LIST
ABHOR, BIGOT, KINDLE, NOXIOUS, BILK, NUANCE, ENGENDER, BILLOWING, COWER, HARANGUE, REPLETE, ABROGATE and 518 more...
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