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A person who mistakes airtime for insight and never checks the exchange rate.
means A person who talks a lot, usually with great confidence, while saying very little of substance.
from Literally a bag of wind — the word first described an actual bladder or sack full of air (like a bagpipe) before it curdled into an insult for someone whose speech is all puffed-up volume and no real content. The bagpipe connection isn't incidental: early uses leaned on the image of air being forced out noisily and at length. By the 1800s 'windbag' was firmly settled as a label for pompous, long-winded talkers — all bellows, no breath of sense.
- origin
- literally means a bag of wind, 1780s
- etymology cousin
- related to bellows, also full of hot air
- tell
- answers yes or no questions in paragraphs
- irony
- often hired specifically to fill silence