windbag

From Middle English wyndbagge, equivalent to wind +‎ bag.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɪndˌbæɡ/

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• Hyphenation: wind‧bag
• Rhymes: -æɡ

windbag (plural windbags)

1. (archaic) Bellows for an organ.
2. (mildly derogatory) Someone who talks excessively.
   • 1964, Jesse Hill Ford, The conversion of Buster Drumwright, page 111:

     Some windbag. Hell, ain't I seen your kind before? ... Some bag of wind. You're just hot air, that's all.

   • 2014 January 16, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 482 - Blood:

     "Do you hear that, Ryan? Your mommy is being a pontificating windbag."

• (person): gasbag, bag of wind, bloviator; see also Thesaurus:chatterbox

windbag (third-person singular simple present windbags, present participle windbagging, simple past and past participle windbagged)

1. To talk pompously or excessively.

• bawding, dawbing