blowhard
Plural: blowhards
Noun
- A person who boasts excessively; a braggart.
- a very boastful and talkative person
- A person who talks too much or too loudly, especially in a boastful or self-important manner.
Examples
- The blowhard at the Scrabble club always claimed his wins were due to pure skill, not luck.
Origin / Etymology
Essentially deverbal in nature, albeit not from a unitary phrasal verb; from blow hard.
Synonyms
boaster, braggart, bragger, line-shooter, vaunter, big mouth, bloviator, blusterer, loudmouth, windbag
Scrabble Score: 17
blowhard: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordblowhard: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
blowhard: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary