as in chatterer
a person who talks constantly
with a windbag like that, who needs a wind farm to meet our energy needs?
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Recent Examples of windbag
Which is the unstoppable windbag destined to monopolize conversation at breakfast?
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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.
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Conrad Black,
National Review,
11 Sep. 2019
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for windbag
magpie
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Even the New York Times got in on the action, with a profile of the eccentric Sitwell (the charms her magpie, Hecate, are impossible to resist).
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Over to the corvid family for some intelligence, and the raven gets the nod for its size advantage over the magpie and the jay.
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“Windbag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/windbag. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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