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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
The flirty blowhard with the goatee is a younger philosophy professor, Hank (Andrew Garfield), who signals their years of friendship (and maybe more) by propping his legs up against her on the couch.
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Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
Any resemblance to real-life megalomaniacal blowhards in positions of power are anything but coincidental.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Sep. 2025
Or the skewering and scathing kind from social media, where everyone’s a target by armchair quarterback blowhards, including over four mixed starts at Arizona State in 2023.
—Joe Davidosn, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Another film critic shaking his fist at the sky isn’t going to change anything — shaking their fists at the sky and not changing things is basically 90% of what those blowhards get paid to do these days.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2025
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Of the many incarnations of the narcissist, there is the braggart, and there is also the neurotic.—
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Still, Kimmel never came off as a braggart.—
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Only the magpies know who caused this mess.—
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Josie’s design of Sister Europe is rich, playful and stylish—the magpie in me is super drawn to her glimmering illustration and colour choices.—
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The story is told from Dah’s perspective, as Jocelyn—who displays a quasi-mystical rapport with fighting cocks—suffers an emotional breakdown, putting their business and their lives in danger.—
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The former became fighting cocks and the latter became sows.—
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Which is the unstoppable windbag destined to monopolize conversation at breakfast?—
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When a self-important young windbag named Bartow (played to perfection by Jackson Kelly) rather reasonably asks Hank to say something — anything — the latter launches into a scathing but accurate sendup of Bartow’s writing and accuses him (and the student population, and the college) of mediocrity.—
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Larger balloons were connected to the ground by telegraph wires to speed the delivery of intelligence, which had to be fast, as the tethered gasbags were sitting ducks for Confederate fire.—
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Such a windup suggested that a rerun of their infamous 2020 debate was coming, with Trump casting himself in the role, once again, of rogue gasbag.—
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Wrapped in a lightweight, ergonomic design, the blower is built for easy maneuvering during long cleaning sessions without the strain of traditional equipment.—
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The woman at center (her pose reminiscent of David’s Hersilia, the mythical wife of Romulus who intervenes in the war between the Romans and Sabines) dances to the triumphant music of drummers and horn blowers.—
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“Blowhard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blowhard. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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