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# windbag

«windbag» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who talks too much, usually about boring or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a windbag, windbags)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (informal, rude) A windbag is a person who talks too much, usually about boring or unimportant things, or boasts endlessly. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windbag/#m2)

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «windbag» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windbag/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.