Windbag
noun
A person who talks too much, especially about unimportant things.
The meeting went on for hours because John, the windbag, liked the sound of his own voice too much.
Often appears as...
- unrepentant windbag
- old windbag
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
A person who talks too much, especially about unimportant things.
The meeting went on for hours because John, the windbag, liked the sound of his own voice too much.
Often appears as...
- unrepentant windbag
- old windbag
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Colloquial Usage
Generally used in informal speech and not in formal writing or professional settings.
Stop being a windbag and get to the point!
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Windbag' is usually used to criticize someone's speaking style as annoying or excessive.
I couldn't get a word in with that windbag monopolizing the conversation.
Pro Tip 3/3Slang Alternatives
Similar informal slang includes 'gasbag' or 'blabbermouth' with the same negative implication.
He's such a gasbag at parties, just like an old windbag at family gatherings.
Pro Tip 1/3Colloquial Usage
Generally used in informal speech and not in formal writing or professional settings.
Stop being a windbag and get to the point!
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Windbag' is usually used to criticize someone's speaking style as annoying or excessive.
I couldn't get a word in with that windbag monopolizing the conversation.
Pro Tip 3/3Slang Alternatives
Similar informal slang includes 'gasbag' or 'blabbermouth' with the same negative implication.
He's such a gasbag at parties, just like an old windbag at family gatherings.
Pro Tip 1/3Colloquial Usage
Generally used in informal speech and not in formal writing or professional settings.
Stop being a windbag and get to the point!
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Windbag' is usually used to criticize someone's speaking style as annoying or excessive.
I couldn't get a word in with that windbag monopolizing the conversation.
Pro Tip 3/3Slang Alternatives
Similar informal slang includes 'gasbag' or 'blabbermouth' with the same negative implication.
He's such a gasbag at parties, just like an old windbag at family gatherings.
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Quote examples
Antonio Garcia Martinez
In Cuba, where Wi-Fi is both slow and terrible, you will be an emissary from the future, a hint of the degeneracy to come. You're a full-on mainlining internet junkie with the world's uproar piped into your head 24/7, your emotional landscape terraformed and buffeted by whatever some narcissist just posted on Instagram or some windbag on Twitter.
Quote examples
Robert Picardo
American Actor
My character on 'Voyager,' because of the way he was presented, I could go either way. I could be a real buffoon, a windbag, be self-involved, and we could get a lot of comic mileage from him. However, the audience accepted me with gravity when I was in a dire situation, so they would follow me in comic or dramatic stories.
Quote examples
John Gregory Dunne
American Novelist
Were it not for Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey would be remembered, if at all, as a Bible-thumping midwestern Methodist windbag who neither played baseball on Sundays when he was a mediocre catcher for the St. Louis Browns and the New York Highlanders, nor attended games on the Sabbath as a baseball executive.
Quote examples
Steven Crowder
Canadian Actor
The truth is that the gossip-hounds in Tinsel Town and the cackling windbags at 'The View' don't want civility. They want catty (or dare I say it gay-ish) gossip and sensational headlines that provide them with an opportunity to hop on the bully pulpit.
Quote examples
Brad Garrett
American Actor
I'm a large, bombastic type of windbag.
Quote examples
Antonio Garcia Martinez
In Cuba, where Wi-Fi is both slow and terrible, you will be an emissary from the future, a hint of the degeneracy to come. You're a full-on mainlining internet junkie with the world's uproar piped into your head 24/7, your emotional landscape terraformed and buffeted by whatever some narcissist just posted on Instagram or some windbag on Twitter.
Quote examples
Robert Picardo
American Actor
My character on 'Voyager,' because of the way he was presented, I could go either way. I could be a real buffoon, a windbag, be self-involved, and we could get a lot of comic mileage from him. However, the audience accepted me with gravity when I was in a dire situation, so they would follow me in comic or dramatic stories.
Quote examples
John Gregory Dunne
American Novelist
Were it not for Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey would be remembered, if at all, as a Bible-thumping midwestern Methodist windbag who neither played baseball on Sundays when he was a mediocre catcher for the St. Louis Browns and the New York Highlanders, nor attended games on the Sabbath as a baseball executive.
Quote examples
Steven Crowder
Canadian Actor
The truth is that the gossip-hounds in Tinsel Town and the cackling windbags at 'The View' don't want civility. They want catty (or dare I say it gay-ish) gossip and sensational headlines that provide them with an opportunity to hop on the bully pulpit.
Quote examples
Brad Garrett
American Actor
I'm a large, bombastic type of windbag.
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