Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The flexible air-filled chamber of a bagpipe or similar instrument.
- n. Slang A talkative person who communicates nothing of substance or interest.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A bag filled with wind; hence, a person of mere words; a noisy, empty pretender.
Wiktionary
- n. archaic Bellows for an organ.
- n. mildly derogatory someone who talks excessively
WordNet 3.0
- n. a boring person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics
Etymologies
- wind + bag (Wiktionary)
Examples
“So perhaps the father, brother/sister, or some important windbag from the banquet/ceremony conspires to banish him to the earth world and be rid of the boy forever?”
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Burnsauce Johnson’s Review Forum
“A windbag tied to another windbag is not exactly a good thing.”
“Does it sound like this irrelevant windbag is trying to pull together facts to otherwise justify her racist beliefs?”
“#64 — The mighty windbag is back spewing her nonsense.”
“The problem with the windbag is that she sees this as a ‘game’, and something she wants to ‘win’.”
“Unfortunately that windbag is from my homtown. i wanted to share a very funny commnet from oanother blog on your main topic:”
“The style of mighty windbag is virtually identical to MrWrong, as is much of the grammar and tactics.”
Think Progress » Kristol: “One or More Indictments in the Next Three Weeksâ€
“Hate blinds everything, and miss windbag is stumbling over ManCoulter’s schlong …”
Think Progress » Powerline: The “Dumbest Bit of Political Analysis” We’ve Seen in a Long Time
“As you headed for the door you were already being called a windbag and a bore.”
“I respect your opinion of my commentary as being a 'windbag', yet contend that considering the amount of half baked solutions and out dated products on the market, and above all the lack of common criteria or a standard, the closest technology to being a standard is Secure Erase.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘windbag’.
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Unsavory characters
absconder, aretaloger, arriviste, avaunter, bamboozler, bandit, banger, barbarian, barmecide, barrator, beldam, blatherskite and 190 more...
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That's right, another list
muck-a-muck, ipse dixit, solipsism, anticlinal, analogical, amoral, alogical, synclinal, disinclined, iconological, studly, flitch and 179 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, W
washboard, winterbourne, winze, wirble, waterway, windrow, winceyette, waft, whiffletree, wheelbarrow, whicker, wacky and 170 more...
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Dontcry's least favorite words of all...
Some make me cry, some make me mad, some sound nasty, some, well, you get the idea.
peri-menopausal, lubricant, whiskers, barren, varicose, change-of-life, fifty, grey, cougar, mrs robinson, senior, personal summer and 41 more...
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Tweets
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reesetee That's odd. WeirdNet, are you feeling okay? Jan 27, 2009
kewpid Wow, WeirdNet is 100% spot on on windbags. Jan 27, 2009