windbag

Everyday

1. (informal, rude) A windbag is a person who talks too much, usually about boring or unimportant things, or boasts endlessly. tree →
2. (old) A windbag is the bag of a bagpipe that holds the air. tree →

In the lessons

A teasing word in stories and everyday talk. In The Wind in the Willows Toad could be called a windbag because he boasts and talks about himself without stopping. Politicians are sometimes mocked as windbags.

Examples

• Uncle Bert is a real windbag — he talks for hours. tree →
• «Be quiet, you old windbag!» tree →
• The speech was so long that people called him a windbag. tree →
• Toad was a windbag who never stopped boasting. tree →
• Nobody wanted to sit next to the windbag at dinner. tree →
• The piper squeezed the windbag under his arm. tree →

Note

Countable. Informal and a bit rude; don't call a teacher or visitor a windbag. Similar: chatterbox (gentler), bore, show-off.