Meanings
plural windbags
- derogatorymildlySomeone who talks excessively.
"Do you hear that, Ryan? Your mommy is being a pontificating windbag."
2014 January 16, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 482 - Blood1 more example
Some windbag. Hell, ain't I seen your kind before? ... Some bag of wind. You're just hot air, that's all.
1964, Jesse Hill Ford, The conversion of Buster Drumwright, page 111 - datedThe lungs.
present singular third person windbags · participle present windbagging · participle past windbagged · past windbagged
- derogatoryintransitiveTo talk pompously or excessively.
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna boring person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishwyndbagge
- Englishwindbag
From Middle English wyndbagge, equivalent to wind + bag.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian бърборко
- бърборко (bărborko)someone who talks excessively
Catalan cotorra
- cotorrasomeone who talks excessively
Czech tlachal, žvanil
- tlachalsomeone who talks excessively
- žvanilsomeone who talks excessively
- tlučhubasomeone who talks excessively
Danish sludrechatol, sladdertaske
- sludrechatolsomeone who talks excessively
- sladdertaskesomeone who talks excessively
Dutch windbuil
- windbuilsomeone who talks excessively
Finnish suupaltti
- suupalttisomeone who talks excessively
French moulin à paroles
- moulin à parolessomeone who talks excessively
German Schwätzer, Schwätzerin
- Schwätzersomeone who talks excessively
- Schwätzerinsomeone who talks excessively
- Schwaflersomeone who talks excessively
- Schwaflerinsomeone who talks excessively
- Plaudertaschesomeone who talks excessively
Greek αερολόγος
- αερολόγος (aerológos)someone who talks excessively
Hungarian szószátyár
- szószátyársomeone who talks excessively
Icelandic vindbelgur
- vindbelgursomeone who talks excessively
Irish bromaire, béalastán
- bromairesomeone who talks excessively
- béalastánsomeone who talks excessively
- bolmánsomeone who talks excessively
Italian parolaio, quaquaraquà
- parolaiosomeone who talks excessively
- quaquaraquàsomeone who talks excessively
- sparacazzatesomeone who talks excessively
Māori arero kapekapetau, pukukōrero
- arero kapekapetausomeone who talks excessively
- pukukōrerosomeone who talks excessively
Polish gaduła
- gadułasomeone who talks excessively
Russian трепло́
- трепло́ (trepló)someone who talks excessively
Welsh malwr
- malwrsomeone who talks excessively
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with windbag
Cite this entry
windbag. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/windbag
“windbag.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/windbag. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “windbag,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/windbag.
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