gasbag n.
a talkative person.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Ladies’ Repository (N.Y.) Oct. VIII:37 316/2: Gasman, a braggart. | |
| Life in Boston & N.Y. (Boston, MA) 23 Aug. n.p.: You and those three gas bags had better keep away. | |
| Rebel Yell and The Yankee Hurrah (1985) 250: He was a cheap buffoon and the very prince of gasbags. | |
 | Newton Kansan 2 Jan. 2/3: Gas bags were never known to do more than make a noise [DA]. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Manchester Eve. News 4 Feb. 4/4: ‘Fiddlesticks,’ cried Knowall. ‘Do you suppose I would be fool enough to employ a — a gas bag like you?’. | |
| W. Kansas World (Wakeeny, KS) 3 Oct. 1/4: ‘Capt.’ Glaspie is the worst old blister west of the Alleghanies. His talk is foul and indecent. He is commonly known as the Pawnee ‘gasbag’. | |
| Referee 6 Jan. n.p.: That great gas-bag of modern days [F&H]. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Truth (Sydney) 17 Mar. 6/4: Had Patrick got John L. into the ring, the Maitlander would have been champion instead of the gas-bag that now poses as boss of the world. | |
| Pink ’Un and Pelican 186: That vain old gasbag, Sir William Vernon Harcourt. | |
| ‘Dads Wayback’ in Sun. Times (Sydney) 8 Mar. 5/3: ‘True A1 bounders is gas-bags; theys got ter be bulgy an’ full o’ wind ter make ’em bounce. [...] an’ he can go on spoutin’ jest as long as ther gas is laid on’. | |
| ‘The Clarion Call’ Voice of the City (1915) 195: Kind of rattles you, doesn’t it, to have the mysterious villain call up [...] and tell you what a helpless old gas-bag you are? | |
| Shavings 16: I judge likely I’m the ‘this’ you and that gas bag have been talkin’ about. | |
| Tell England (1965) 83: Kick that gas-bag Pennybet out. | |
| Townsville Daily Bull. (Qld) 10 Aug. 16/2: One old gasbag said there was no disease or trouble. | |
| Child of Norman’s End (1967) 362: A trifler, and a gas-bag to boot. | |
| Sudden Takes the Trail 62: You ain’t scared o’ that gas-bag, are you? | |
| World So Wide 163: I’m going to collect as many facts [...] as that old gas-bag, Belfont, has in maybe twenty years. | |
| Lore and Lang. of Schoolchildren (1977) 68: One who talks too much (i.e. a chatter-box, gas-bag, [...] or wind-bag). | |
| Getting Straight 77: Poor old gasbag. | |
| Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976) 142: What have you two gas bags been talking about? | |
| Dict. of Invective (1991) 170: The person who talks too much is, naturally, a gasbag. | |
| Lingo 2: Although mostly taken for granted, the importance of the vernacular in everyday life is apparent from the number of Lingoisms describing or referring to it. chinwag; gasbag; have a yarn; bend your ear. | |
| Baltimore Sun (MD) 4 Jan. D5/1: He always seems to have something worthwhile to say. There is not an ounce of gasbag in him. |
In derivatives
(Irish) empty wordiness, prolixity.
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Wexford People 17 Feb. 4/4: [J]ust let the Government exhibit any disposition to keep the peace, and all the loyal and disloyal gas-baggery will collapse. | |
| Sporting Life 19 Aug. 2/4: R. Goodman is the Leadinq Turf Telegraphist and the man to follow. [...] No guesswork. No Twaddle. No Continental nor Chinese Napoleonism. No incompetent gas-baggery. No clap-trap. | |
| Morn. Post (Raleigh, NC) 24 July 9/2: Politics, oratory, debate, contention, humbuggery, and gasbaggery. | |
![[Can]](/static/img/flags/can.png "Canada") | Saskatoon Dly Star (Saskatchewan) 29 July 4/3: Condor Charlie [i.e. Lord Charles Beresford] already has sufficient of a reputation for gas-baggery. | |
| Dly News (London) 17 Mar. 10/3: [T]he incessant wrangling, disputation and gas-baggery of the House of Commons. | |
| Brookyln Dly Eagle (NY) 4 Nov. 34/3: [P]olitical mugwumpery and gasbaggery. | |
| Danville News (TX) 27 Feb. 1/1: Politicians had developed the fine art of gasbaggery to its supreme height. | |
| 26 Apr. [synd. col.] ‘Radicalization’ may also mean [...] a new tendency to indulge in political gasbaggery. | |
| After Hours 184: Mickey Mouse intellectual. Still showin’ off, he got off on Dave and the two of them went into a heavy literature gas-bag. | |
| Age (Sydney) 23 June 11/1: [T]he talk of politicians was accurately described as ‘hot air,’ ‘gas-baggery’, ‘political wind’ [etc]. | |
| Sun. Tribune 17 May B13: He hated cant and gasbaggery, and went unerringly to the centre of things. | |
| Dly Telegraph (London) 30 June 26/2: Clinton outdoes all rival practitioners of the higher gasbaggery. | |
| Glorious Heresies 298: She lost interest in her detective novels [...] she didn’t have the time for cheesy gasbaggery. | |
| Regina Leader-Post N12/1: [G]asbaggery about how Auston Matthews tapes his hocley stick. | |
| Tallahassee Democrat (FL) 28 Apr. A5/4: Facts belie the gasbaggery. Math produces facts. |