'windbag' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is used to refer to someone who talks in an excessively verbose and boastful manner. For example, "My boss was such a windbag, he couldn't seem to get to the point of his story".
Liberals love to hate Mrs Palin because they believe she's a divisive, know-nothing windbag.
This proved he was "maniacally" opposed to abortion, said the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, a windbag who "had uttered his first full sentence at the age of 14 months and hadn't stopped since".These, as it happens, are scenes from "Supreme Courtship", an amusing novel by Christopher Buckley.
In the lexicon of Marxian insults, phrases like "impudent windbag" and "rowdy, loudmouthed and extremely confused little mannikin" counted as mild.But Mr Wheen is bent on showing that the brutish and acerbic polemicist, while he undoubtedly existed, was not the only Karl Marx.
Mr Miliband will have to decide whether to leave the rate unchanged and look like a windbag, or try to woo voters as the party of tax increases.This budget carries a message not just about Britain's relationship to the world, but also about the nature of its economy.
The alleged rape of Shia LaBeouf by a woman during his art installation #IAMSORRY is an enormous test of morals and self-imposed standards for a vociferous windbag feminist like myself.
"Alan Williams," he told me, "is the very antithesis of a Welsh windbag!" William's last service was in the unglamorous position of chairman of the Public Accounts Commission, which since 1983 has overseen the National Audit Office, examining its estimates and appointing non-executive directors from outside.
Paul's speech matches the all-time Commons record for non-stop speaking, set by Henry Brougham in 1828, although since that speech was not actually for filibustering purposes, presumably Brougham was just a windbag.
Either way, he is a windbag, a pedant, and a hypocrite.
None of the items are loaded down with windbag descriptions of ingredients or preparation details.
"The fucking windbag, he's going to feed us the same load of garbage!
And, as this fifty-five-minute monologue drags on and on, Myers begins to seem more like a windbag than like an authority.
