Windbag (Noun)
Meaning
A boring person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- At the office party, he proved to be a notorious windbag, dominating conversations with his dull stories of stamp collecting.
- She stopped inviting him to dinner parties after realizing he was a windbag who talked excessively about the history of crop rotation.
- After being stuck on a plane next to a windbag who talked about antique teapots for hours, she never wanted to fly again.
- He turned out to be a windbag at the book club meeting, going on and on about his opinions on every minor detail in the novel.
- Everyone avoided him at the networking event, knowing he was a windbag who would spend hours talking about the minutiae of his company's latest financial reports.