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Synonyms for wind-bag

Grammar : Adj
Spell : wind-bag
Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɪndˌbæg

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Définition of wind-bag

Origin :
  • late 15c., "bellows for an organ," from wind (n.1) + bag (n.). Figurative sense of "person who talks too much" is attested from 1827.
  • As in garrulous : adj talkative
Example sentences :
  • They gape round him while he twangs and screeches, the wind-bag!
  • Extract from : « Romance » by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
  • Bluntly, a wind-bag; two hundred and seventy pounds of atmosphere.
  • Extract from : « Held for Orders » by Frank H. Spearman
  • Maybe it was done as a trick to scare the wind-bag engineer.
  • Extract from : « Held for Orders » by Frank H. Spearman
  • There was a wind-bag hanging over the sun that will soon be piping a merry note.
  • Extract from : « Captain Kyd, Vol. II » by Joseph Holt Ingraham
  • They sneak up to me sideways, look at me out of a corner of the eye, and say: "That man is a lunatic," "That man is a wind-bag."
  • Extract from : « Uncle Vanya » by Anton Checkov
  • This unexpected response rather pricks the wind-bag of the man's zeal.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 » by Various
  • Your enemies say that you are little better than a wind-bag, and I verily believe they are not far wrong.
  • Extract from : « The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer » by Richard Clynton
  • The book had great success, but of what Mr. Carlyle calls the "wind-bag" nature.
  • Extract from : « The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 » by Various
  • A Norwegian witch once boasted of sinking a vessel by opening a wind-bag she possessed.
  • Extract from : « A History of Nursery Rhymes » by Percy B. Green
  • He is a man of words, a man of committees, a wind-bag incapable of prompt action, incompetent to lead a Revolution.
  • Extract from : « The Gods are Athirst » by Anatole France

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