Synonyms for windbag
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : wind-bag |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɪndˌbæg |
Top 10 synonyms for windbag Other synonyms for the word windbag
Définition of windbag
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.
- noun bigmouth, chatterer
- Happily less, far less, than usual of the windbag about Sexton.
- Extract from : « Punch, or, the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 8, 1890. » by Various
- Since when has the son of a chief learnt to talk with the loud tongue and windbag swagger of the Amabuna?
- Extract from : « The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley » by Bertram Mitford
- With the inconceivably-maniacal Swiss quartette, who shout and caper, and produce hideous sounds from throat and windbag.
- Extract from : « London's Heart » by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon
- In his letters during this period, everyone who differs from him is denounced as a charlatan and a windbag.
- Extract from : « Schopenhauer » by Margrieta Beer
- No opportunity for Windbag to come into action; now is the time, as champion of privileges of House of Commons.
- Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 100, April 25, 1891 » by Various
- Now you mention the Evening Windbag that nobody pays no more attention to than kids yelling in the street.
- Extract from : « Queed » by Henry Sydnor Harrison
- The hour of all windbags does arrive; every windbag is at length ripped and collapses.
- Extract from : « Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources » by James Wood
- And Mr. Spurgeon was no windbag—vox et præterea nihil; no darling pet of old women whose Christianity was flabby as an oyster.
- Extract from : « Christopher Crayon's Recollections » by J. Ewing Ritchie
- He shall not be a man of the people; else in that case he would be a demagogue, a windbag, a vox et prterea nil.
- Extract from : « The Arena » by Various
- He was a knight of industry of the very worst description—a braggart, a talker, a windbag.
- Extract from : « The Slave Of The Lamp » by Henry Seton Merriman
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