as in chatterer
a person who talks constantly
that gasbag will talk your ear off about anything
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Recent Examples of gasbag
If the legislature paced the flow of business better, the gasbag Republicans, whose ranks grow smaller and smaller, would lose their power to disrupt with hours of monologues.
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Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 14 Mar. 2026
In one painfully funny sequence, a visiting gallerist (and gasbag) barely seems to care about her art, showing more interest in a goose’s nest that has materialized in an enclosure.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
Larger balloons were connected to the ground by telegraph wires to speed the delivery of intelligence, which had to be fast, as the tethered gasbags were sitting ducks for Confederate fire.
—Literary Hub, 24 Oct. 2025
Such a windup suggested that a rerun of their infamous 2020 debate was coming, with Trump casting himself in the role, once again, of rogue gasbag.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 28 June 2024
Trump, now with the gasbag winds from TV commentary at his back, may indeed win the nomination in 2024.
—Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 6 June 2023
The impact detonated the 5.5 million cubic feet of highly flammable hydrogen in the airship’s 15 gasbags.
—Dominic Green, wsj.com, 27 Apr. 2023
At one time, though, Jack was delighted to be tolerated among the philosophers and essayists, going so far as to marry Judy, the sophisticated daughter of a once-famous, still precious, self-enamored gasbag named Howard (Larry Pine).
—New York Times, 7 July 2021
This propulsive focus led to his long, gasbag sentences, ballooned to maximize the present, but also to crowd out any thought of past obligations or future consequences.
—Connor Goodwin, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2020
Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 14 Mar. 2026
In one painfully funny sequence, a visiting gallerist (and gasbag) barely seems to care about her art, showing more interest in a goose’s nest that has materialized in an enclosure.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
Larger balloons were connected to the ground by telegraph wires to speed the delivery of intelligence, which had to be fast, as the tethered gasbags were sitting ducks for Confederate fire.
—Literary Hub, 24 Oct. 2025
Such a windup suggested that a rerun of their infamous 2020 debate was coming, with Trump casting himself in the role, once again, of rogue gasbag.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 28 June 2024
Trump, now with the gasbag winds from TV commentary at his back, may indeed win the nomination in 2024.
—Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 6 June 2023
The impact detonated the 5.5 million cubic feet of highly flammable hydrogen in the airship’s 15 gasbags.
—Dominic Green, wsj.com, 27 Apr. 2023
At one time, though, Jack was delighted to be tolerated among the philosophers and essayists, going so far as to marry Judy, the sophisticated daughter of a once-famous, still precious, self-enamored gasbag named Howard (Larry Pine).
—New York Times, 7 July 2021
This propulsive focus led to his long, gasbag sentences, ballooned to maximize the present, but also to crowd out any thought of past obligations or future consequences.
—Connor Goodwin, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gasbag
Noun
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So now here’s Martha just seeing single magpies all over the place.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2026
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Mornings start at Plume, which takes its inspiration from Taiwan’s national bird, the blue magpie (taking pride of place on a floor-to-ceiling mural by French artist Elsa Jeandedieu).—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Which is the unstoppable windbag destined to monopolize conversation at breakfast?—
Guy Trebay,
Travel + Leisure,
15 July 2025
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When a self-important young windbag named Bartow (played to perfection by Jackson Kelly) rather reasonably asks Hank to say something — anything — the latter launches into a scathing but accurate sendup of Bartow’s writing and accuses him (and the student population, and the college) of mediocrity.—
Lili Loofbourow,
Washington Post,
18 Mar. 2023
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“Gasbag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gasbag. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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