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Meanings of blowhard in English

Portuguese
pimpão
Catalan
fanfarró
Spanish
jactancioso

A very boastful and talkative person.

pimpão
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Examples for "braggart"
Examples for "braggart"
1
Women such as I am are not won in this braggart fashion.
The Grey Cloak
2
He'd been such a shameless braggart that the crowd couldn't help cheering.
Library of Souls
3
That man may have been a convict; but he is no braggart.
A Mating in the Wilds
4
Something in his pose, half rustic, half braggart, seemed familiar to Gaspard.
The Path of the King
5
He tried hard to despise the braggart, but ended with envying him.
Tales from Two Hemispheres
1
If Julio were only more courageous; but he is a cowardly boaster.
The Amulet
2
The loud-mouthed boaster does not impress nor frighten those who know him.
The Aesop for Children / With pictures by Milo Winter
3
And she promptly told him that he was a stupid, silly boaster.
The Tale of Buster Bumblebee
4
I liked that fellow, Henderson, too, though he was a powerful boaster.
The Sword of Antietam: A Story of the Nation's Crisis
5
He was not a boaster; he was not a broken soldier.
The Grey Cloak
1
One day I asked one of his neighbors who that bragger's parents were.
The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes: His Fortunes and Misfortunes as...
2
Evelyn's not much of a bragger, but she seems to be a pretty well-educated girl.
The Second Violin
3
May Belle would tell Daddy, so it wouldn't look as though he, Jess, was a bragger.
Bridge to Terabithia
4
But about the truth of this we do not know, for Ben was a bragger and a swaggerer.
English Literature for Boys and Girls
5
Andrew isn't a bragger, and his money has been silent so far, but it will speak ere long.
A Knight of the Nets
1
His luck is best to win this vaunter's stake.
The Mississippi Bubble / How the Star of Good Fortune Rose and S...
2
And now, worthy Sexwolf, thou shalt see if the Norman is the vaunter thou deemest him.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 07
3
Who would not forgive so cajoling a vaunter?
Inns and Taverns of Old London
4
He remarked that the face of Sagaris shone as though exultantly, but no indiscreet word dropped from the vaunter's lips.
Veranilda
5
9 To manage steeds, as did this vaunter; but in vain.
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
Usage of blowhard in English
1
Quinn's a blowhard but... A long pause, as if he'd rather not finish.
Exit strategy
2
The Empire could only be improved by the loss of another high-ranking blowhard.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
3
CIA officers dismissed Abdul Haq as an egomaniac and a blowhard.
Ghost wars
4
That was Donald Trump when he was a relatively harmless blowhard.
The Guardian
5
He cites Johnny Come Lately, about a blowhard American soldier.
The Guardian
6
A city full of blowhard politicians and she got the one man of action.
Our little secret
7
He knew perfectly well the limitations of this small-town blowhard.
The appeal
8
That polymer your blowhard Walters was bragging all over TV about a while ago?
The capitol game
9
A blowhard, a drunk, a womanizer, a man who went psychotic over his career.
Man in the Middle
10
The long-winded blowhard was squandering his breath and their patience.
The capitol game
11
It wasn't as if the guy were an asshole or some blowhard corporate dude.
The reach of a chef: beyond the kitchen
12
The gently subversive gender politics worked so effectively they generated rebuke from Canadian blowhard Jordan Peterson.
The Irish Times
13
We were all there, Tiresias who knew too much, and my Patroclus, and that blowhard Agamemnon.
Seven Surrenders
14
The mad money Jim Cramer collects from TheStreet is, however, fair game for his fellow blowhard.
Reuters
15
Morris, blowhard that he was, had one-upped her.
Damaged
16
Chris Berman comes across as a pompous blowhard, yelling at Tony Kornheiser and dressing down junior employees.
Reuters
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Portuguese
pimpão
Blowhard through the time