He's an old windbag, you can't believe a word he says.
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Windbag
//ˈwɪndˌbæɡ//
Synonyms for "windbag" (52 found)
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34 translations across 21 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- бърборко noun (someone who talks excessively)
Catalan
1 entries- cotorra noun (someone who talks excessively)
Czech
3 entries- tlachal noun (someone who talks excessively)
- tlučhuba noun (someone who talks excessively)
- žvanil noun (someone who talks excessively)
Danish
2 entries- sladdertaske noun (someone who talks excessively)
- sludrechatol noun (someone who talks excessively)
Dutch
1 entries- windbuil noun (someone who talks excessively)
Finnish
1 entries- suupaltti noun (someone who talks excessively)
French
1 entries- moulin à paroles noun (someone who talks excessively)
Galician
1 entries- falabarato noun (someone who talks excessively)
Georgian
2 entries- ენაჭარტალა noun (someone who talks excessively)
- ყბედი noun (someone who talks excessively)
German
4 entries- Plaudertasche noun (someone who talks excessively)
- Schwafler noun (someone who talks excessively)
- Schwaflerin noun (someone who talks excessively)
- Schwätzer noun (someone who talks excessively)
Greek
1 entries- αερολόγος noun (someone who talks excessively)
Hungarian
1 entries- szószátyár noun (someone who talks excessively)
Icelandic
1 entries- vindbelgur noun (someone who talks excessively)
Irish
3 entries- bolmán noun (someone who talks excessively)
- bromaire noun (someone who talks excessively)
- béalastán noun (someone who talks excessively)
Italian
3 entries- parolaio noun (someone who talks excessively)
- quaquaraquà noun (someone who talks excessively)
- sparacazzate noun (someone who talks excessively)
Macedonian
1 entries- бр́борко noun (someone who talks excessively)
Māori
2 entries- arero kapekapetau noun (someone who talks excessively)
- pukukōrero noun (someone who talks excessively)
Old Church Slavonic
1 entries- блѧдь noun (someone who talks excessively)
Polish
1 entries- gaduła noun (someone who talks excessively)
Russian
1 entries- трепло́ noun (someone who talks excessively)
Welsh
1 entries- malwr noun (someone who talks excessively)
Sample sentences
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The community pastor wasn't a fiery preacher, but rather a talkative windbag and bore.
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Tom is a windbag.
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He found the speeches tedious enough, and thought Sir John a dreadful windbag.
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