Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An expansible bag for holding gas.
- noun Slang One given to empty or boastful talk.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bag for holding gas, as for the use of dentists or for a limelight.
- noun A cylindrical bag of some gas-tight material fitted with a tube and valve so that it can be filled with air from an air-pump.
- noun A boastful, loquacious person; a conceited gabbler.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
- noun the bag containing the gas in a balloon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A bag or
bladder to hold a reservoir of gas, as in a hot-air balloon. - noun Metaphorically, a person who is overly
garrulous or prone to makingempty ,unsupportable statements.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a boring person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics
- noun the bag containing the gas in a balloon
Etymologies
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Examples
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None of my money goes to the RNC while this gasbag is still there.
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None of my money goes to the RNC while this gasbag is still there.
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The loud-mouthed gasbag is obviously awakening to the fact that his influence, his credibility and his future livelihood is threatened by the fact that he will soon be proven wrong.
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This is why Rush is called a gasbag in the first place.
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Therefore I'm fine with him being discribed as a 'gasbag'.
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By April 2006, I was sick of hearing people marvel at what a good speaker he was and called him a "gasbag":
Why I'm voting for Obama in the Wisconsin primary. Ann Althouse 2008
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Following up myself at 43, it would be cool to mount a “callingallwingnuts” style campaign to call the gasbag’s show (or any conservative gasbag’s show, for that matter) and ask on the air, “In light of your (Rush’s) oxycontin problem and its resolution, would you be in favor of decriminalizing drug possession and offering treatment instead of jail time?”
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Digby wants you to meet the right wing's newest, most famous "gasbag,"
Home/News 2010
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Digby wants you to meet the right wing's newest, most famous "gasbag,"
Home/News 2010
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Digby wants you to meet the right wing's newest, most famous "gasbag,"
Home/News 2010
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