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# windbag

noun (a windbag, windbags)

«windbag» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (informal, rude) A windbag is a person who talks too much, usually about boring or unimportant things, or boasts endlessly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windbag/#m1)
2. (old) A windbag is the bag of a bagpipe that holds the air. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windbag/#m2)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windbag/#x1)
- «Be quiet, you old windbag!» [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windbag/#x2)
- The speech was so long that people called him a windbag. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windbag/#x3)
- Toad was a windbag who never stopped boasting. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windbag/#x4)
- Nobody wanted to sit next to the windbag at dinner. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windbag/#x5)
- The piper squeezed the windbag under his arm. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windbag/#x6)

### Note

Countable. Informal and a bit rude; don't call a teacher or visitor a windbag. Similar: chatterbox (gentler), bore, show-off.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «windbag» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windbag/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«windbag» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/windbag.html) on Mova free.