blowhard

noun

ˈblō-ˌhärd How to pronounce blowhard (audio)
Definition of blowhardnext
1
as in chatterer
a person who talks constantly a politician who is the stereotypical backslapping blowhard

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as in braggart
someone who boasts a blowhard who always had to act like she was better than anyone else

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Recent Examples of blowhard Just about the entire movie unfolds inside a beige Paris hotel suite, and then a fancy restaurant, where Philip Doom (Harrelson), who is some sort of wealthy blowhard, and his 32-year-old daughter, Madeleine (Stewart), are sitting around berating each other. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 May 2026 Being a manager is hard; being a blowhard columnist after a series that brought national indignity to the local nine is easy. — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2026 Because his subject was surrounded by colorful and often unpredictable characters—alcoholics, neurotics, and blowhards—Perkins’s self-effacing qualities make for a dramatic contrast and a wealth of wild stories. — Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026 The wonder is how Kamala Harris ever chose this creepy blowhard as her 2024 vice presidential running mate. — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 10 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for blowhard
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blowhard
  1. magpie
  2. braggart
  3. windbag
  4. blower
  5. gasbag
Noun
  • Her magpie collecting led her to her early jewelry, with friends asking her for pieces.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Other magpies gathered around it, as if saddened and confused.
    — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of magpie
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  • Clayton is cool and kind and a big braggart.
    — Wendy Paris, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
  • Not to become a braggart, but to amplify my or our team’s success on projects or risk going unnoticed.
    — Lintao "LT" Lu, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2026
Definition of braggart
Noun
  • Which is the unstoppable windbag destined to monopolize conversation at breakfast?
    — Guy Trebay, Travel + Leisure, 15 July 2025
  • Some combination of deliberate tactics and the unprecedented loathing of his opponents causes anything bombastic, silly, or overly self-centered to be played up and employed to reinforce the caricature of him as a blustering, narcissistic windbag.
    — Conrad Black, National Review, 11 Sep. 2019
Definition of windbag
Noun
  • Those concerns stretch across the realities of AI’s growth today and more speculative possibilities raised by some technologists and whistle-blowers.
    — Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The movie is based on the true story of a whistle-blower who exposed Facebook’s secrets.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of blower
Noun
  • If the legislature paced the flow of business better, the gasbag Republicans, whose ranks grow smaller and smaller, would lose their power to disrupt with hours of monologues.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 14 Mar. 2026
  • In one painfully funny sequence, a visiting gallerist (and gasbag) barely seems to care about her art, showing more interest in a goose’s nest that has materialized in an enclosure.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
Definition of gasbag

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