windbag

«windbag» in Mova's school dictionary: a person who talks too much, usually about boring or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a windbag, windbags)

meaning for a pupil

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 →

sense 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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «windbag» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.