Meaning

3 senses
  1. (derogatory, mildly)Someone who talks excessively.

    Schwätzer, Schwätzerin, Schwafler

    трепло́trepló

    a boring person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics

  2. (dated)The lungs.

  3. (archaic)Bellows for an organ.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Tom is a windbag.

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  2. They're a bunch of windbags.

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  3. He's an old windbag, you can't believe a word he says.

    deEr ist ein alter Schwätzer, ihm kannst du nichts glauben.

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  4. The community pastor wasn't a fiery preacher, but rather a talkative windbag and bore.

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  5. He found the speeches tedious enough, and thought Sir John a dreadful windbag.

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Translations

5 languages
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someone who talks excessively:
Deutsch
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someone who talks excessively:

Origin

From Middle English wyndbagge, equivalent to wind + bag.

From Middle English wyndbagge, equivalent to wind + bag.

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Forms

plural: windbags
Singularwindbag
Pluralwindbags

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a boring person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics:gasbag

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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