Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A boaster or braggart.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a very boastful and talkative person.
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- noun derogatory A person who talks too much or too loudly, especially in a
boastful orself-important manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a very boastful and talkative person
Etymologies
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Examples
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"The government, especially with this very complex indictment, has opened it up for what I call the blowhard defense: 'He's all words, no action, and how has he benefited in any way?'" says Douglas Godfrey, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law and a former criminal defense lawyer.
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This blowhard is what is wrong with america today.
McConnell: Health care bill a 'legislative train wreck' 2009
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How those occur in similar contexts to blowhard is opaque to me.
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This loud mouth blowhard is dumber that a golf bag stuffed full with putters and sand wedges. pusmytits,
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How those occur in similar contexts to blowhard is opaque to me.
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“That bloviating, bully of a blowhard is so ignorant … ..”
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The word blowhard has appeared in 15 Times articles over the past year, most recently in
No Fact Zone 2009
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That bloviating, bully of a blowhard is so ignorant he can’t see that he is guilty in the highest degree of what he charges his enemies.
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However my 181 post was calling a blowhard a blowhard …. could you have meant 180 and 182 instead?
Think Progress » VIDEO: Powell Says U.S. Went Into Iraq Without Enough Troops 2006
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This is what makes me merely arrogant; otherwise, I'd be a total blowhard, which is an entirely different thing.
Things I Do Not Talk About Because I Do Not Understand Them 2005
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