"windbag" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈwɪndˌbæɡ/ Audio: En-us-windbag.oga [US] Forms: windbags [plural]
Rhymes: -æɡ Etymology: From Middle English wyndbagge, equivalent to wind + bag. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|wyndbagge}} Middle English wyndbagge, {{af|en|wind|bag}} wind + bag Head templates: {{en-noun}} windbag (plural windbags)
  1. (mildly derogatory) Someone who talks excessively. Tags: derogatory, mildly Translations (someone who talks excessively): бърборко (bărborko) [masculine] (Bulgarian), cotorra [feminine] (Catalan), tlachal [masculine] (Czech), žvanil [masculine] (Czech), tlučhuba [masculine] (Czech), sludrechatol [neuter] (Danish), sladdertaske [common-gender] (Danish), windbuil [masculine] (Dutch), suupaltti (Finnish), moulin à paroles [masculine] (French), falabarato [masculine] (Galician), ყბედი (q̇bedi) (Georgian), ენაჭარტალა (enač̣arṭala) (Georgian), Schwätzer [masculine] (German), Schwätzerin [feminine] (German), Schwafler [masculine] (German), Schwaflerin [feminine] (German), Plaudertasche [feminine] (German), αερολόγος (aerológos) [masculine] (Greek), szószátyár (Hungarian), vindbelgur [masculine] (Icelandic), bromaire [masculine] (Irish), béalastán [masculine] (Irish), bolmán [masculine] (Irish), parolaio [masculine] (Italian), quaquaraquà [feminine, masculine] (Italian), sparacazzate [vulgar] (Italian), бр́борко (bŕborko) [masculine] (Macedonian), arero kapekapetau (english: an idiom) (Māori), pukukōrero (Māori), блѧдь (blędĭ) [masculine] (Old Church Slavonic), gaduła [feminine, masculine] (Polish), трепло́ (trepló) [neuter] (Russian), malwr [masculine] (Welsh)
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  2. (dated) The lungs. Tags: dated
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  3. (archaic) Bellows for an organ. Tags: archaic
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: gasbag [person], bag of wind, bloviator

Verb

IPA: /ˈwɪndˌbæɡ/ Audio: En-us-windbag.oga [US] Forms: windbags [present, singular, third-person], windbagging [participle, present], windbagged [participle, past], windbagged [past]
Rhymes: -æɡ Etymology: From Middle English wyndbagge, equivalent to wind + bag. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|wyndbagge}} Middle English wyndbagge, {{af|en|wind|bag}} wind + bag Head templates: {{en-verb|++}} windbag (third-person singular simple present windbags, present participle windbagging, simple past and past participle windbagged)
  1. (intransitive, somewhat derogatory) To talk pompously or excessively. Tags: derogatory, intransitive
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Inflected forms

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        "(dated) The lungs."
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      "sense": "someone who talks excessively",
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      "word": "sludrechatol"
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      "sense": "someone who talks excessively",
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      "word": "windbuil"
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      "sense": "someone who talks excessively",
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      "sense": "someone who talks excessively",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "moulin à paroles"
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      "code": "gl",
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      "sense": "someone who talks excessively",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "falabarato"
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      "code": "ka",
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      "roman": "q̇bedi",
      "sense": "someone who talks excessively",
      "word": "ყბედი"
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      "code": "ka",
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      "roman": "enač̣arṭala",
      "sense": "someone who talks excessively",
      "word": "ენაჭარტალა"
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      "sense": "someone who talks excessively",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Schwätzer"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "someone who talks excessively",
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "someone who talks excessively",
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      "word": "Schwafler"
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      "sense": "someone who talks excessively",
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      "sense": "someone who talks excessively",
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      "word": "Plaudertasche"
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      "sense": "someone who talks excessively",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "vindbelgur"
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      "code": "ga",
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      "sense": "someone who talks excessively",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "bromaire"
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      "code": "ga",
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      "sense": "someone who talks excessively",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "béalastán"
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      "code": "ga",
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      "sense": "someone who talks excessively",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "bolmán"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
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      "sense": "someone who talks excessively",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "parolaio"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "someone who talks excessively",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "quaquaraquà"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "someone who talks excessively",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "sparacazzate"
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
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      "roman": "bŕborko",
      "sense": "someone who talks excessively",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "бр́борко"
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      "code": "mi",
      "english": "an idiom",
      "lang": "Māori",
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      "sense": "someone who talks excessively",
      "translation": "an idiom",
      "word": "arero kapekapetau"
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      "sense": "someone who talks excessively",
      "word": "pukukōrero"
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      "code": "cu",
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      "sense": "someone who talks excessively",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "блѧдь"
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      "sense": "someone who talks excessively",
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      "word": "gaduła"
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      "sense": "someone who talks excessively",
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      "word": "трепло́"
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      "code": "cy",
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      "sense": "someone who talks excessively",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "malwr"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.