Crossword clues for gasbag
gasbag
- Shut up a second! B___ stopping? I hope he is
- This person talks a long time: flipping endlessly
- Talkative type
- Talkative one
- Windy one
- Loquacious sort
- Long-winded sort
- Long-winded one
- Windy sort
- Constant yakker
- Talkative person, informally
- Person who just. Won't. Shut. Up
- Overly orotund orator
- Long-winded person
- Long-winded fellow
- Garrulous sort
- Driveling dullard
- Boastful type
- Bloviating type
- Chatterbox
- One who talks, talks, talks
- Blowhard
- Wind source
- Big talker
- One full of hot air
- Chatty Cathy
- Sort who needs to button up
- Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics
- The bag containing the gas in a balloon
- Hot-air artist
- Endless talker
- Talkative guy
- Gossip and joke about capsized sailors
- Compulsive talker
- Excessive chatterer
- One constantly talking German when appropriate
- One cannot stop talking (informal)
- Source of much comment as book is restricted by restraining order
The Collaborative International Dictionary
gasbag \gasbag\ n.
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a person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
Syn: windbag.
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the bag containing the gas in a balloon.
Syn: envelope.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A bag or bladder to hold a reservoir of gas, as in a hot-air balloon. 2 Metaphorically, a person who is overly garrulous or prone to making empty, unsupportable statements. vb. (cx intransitive English) To speak foolishly, pompously, or at length; to blather.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Gasbag may refer to:
- Balloon, a bag filled with gas
- A hot air balloon for manned flight uses a fabric gas bag or "lifting envelope".
- Windbag, a person who talks too much
- Gas bladder, contributes to the ability of a fish to control its buoyancy
Usage examples of "gasbag".
When the gasbag was full and leaning northward in the buffeting breeze, and the whole apparatus straining against the stout ropes anchoring it down, Lee paid the warehouseman with the last of his gold and helped Grumman into the basket.
He looked up to check the gasbag and saw it sway a degree or two, leaning toward the hills.
The wind was blowing them hard now, and the great gasbag swelled and billowed in the gusts.
As the gas streamed out of the top, invisible far above, the lower curve of the gasbag withdrew into itself, and a fold, and then another, appeared where there had been a bulging sphere only a minute before.
There was still a strong sideways pull from the gasbag, which was now nearly empty, but which as a result was catching the wind like a sail.
He left the basket, the rigging, and the gasbag where they lay, tangled and twisted among the branches.
We can set wheels on one of the baskets, and take a gasbag along like a mining cart.
Josh suggested that if they were going to put wheels on a gasbag basket, it should be the smallest one, so that maneuvering it through the narrower tunnels would be possible.
It therefore fell to them to push the gasbag, from which Lina removed the wheels.
No, he could see the bigger bulk of the gasbag, not even halfway inflated.
David moved up so they could see the cable, then he crawled with it up the side of the gasbag to the crest.
Once they had reached altitude, it would fire only a few times a minute, making up for the heat lost through the great gasbag overhead.
Falcon had no time to see the gasbag actually hit the medusa, because at that moment the ramjet ignited and he had other matters to think about.
A gout of flame erupted noisily beyond the trees as the hydrogen that filled the gasbag of a Bioblimp merry-go-round exploded.
Its hydrogen-filled gasbag was nearly half again as large as those of the merry-go-rounds at the zoo.