"airmonger" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "air + monger",
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          "ref": "1670, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political, 9th edition, page 26",
          "text": "Check thy self, thou Air-monger; that with a madding thought, thus chasest fleeting shadows.",
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          "ref": "1684, The Accomplish’d Lady, or Deserving Gentlewoman […], page 48",
          "text": "Thus Men puff up themselves as big as Pride and Vanty can make them, with a conceit of their own Meritoriousness; tho it be a sordid thing for a man to be the Herald of his own Praise: But it may be said of these Airmongers as it is of the Cameleon, which is […] Nothing but Lungs […]",
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        {
          "ref": "1966, Todor Zhivkov, anonymous translator, For Peace, Friendship and Socialism, page 574",
          "text": "At the same time, we would be no Marxists but philistines and air-mongers if we failed to take into consideration the other side of the question — the inevitability and exceptional importance for socialist construction of the material incentive of the masses with regard to the fruit of their work.",
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          "ref": "1991, Eric W. K. Tsang, Something Is Missing in Beijing, page 33",
          "text": "It seemed that I was only an air-monger who built castles in the air. I failed! I lost! I was weak!",
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          "ref": "2022, Christiane M. Andrews, Wolfish",
          "text": "She would be muttering to the ewes—Where has that old airmonger gone now? What daydreams have taken him wandering?",
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        "A hopeless visionary, a quixotic or unrealistic schemer."
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  "word": "airmonger"
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          "ref": "1670, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political, 9th edition, page 26",
          "text": "Check thy self, thou Air-monger; that with a madding thought, thus chasest fleeting shadows.",
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          "ref": "1684, The Accomplish’d Lady, or Deserving Gentlewoman […], page 48",
          "text": "Thus Men puff up themselves as big as Pride and Vanty can make them, with a conceit of their own Meritoriousness; tho it be a sordid thing for a man to be the Herald of his own Praise: But it may be said of these Airmongers as it is of the Cameleon, which is […] Nothing but Lungs […]",
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          "ref": "1966, Todor Zhivkov, anonymous translator, For Peace, Friendship and Socialism, page 574",
          "text": "At the same time, we would be no Marxists but philistines and air-mongers if we failed to take into consideration the other side of the question — the inevitability and exceptional importance for socialist construction of the material incentive of the masses with regard to the fruit of their work.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "text": "She would be muttering to the ewes—Where has that old airmonger gone now? What daydreams have taken him wandering?",
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