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wind-bag, windbag|ˈwɪndbæg|
[f. wind n.1 + bag n.]
1. A bag containing ‘wind’ or air.
a. The bellows of an organ (obs.) or bag of a bagpipe.
1470–3Rec. Andover 15 For amendyng of the wyndbagge of the organys vis. 1606[implied in wind-bagged: see below]. 1838G. F. Graham Mus. Comp. App. 50 Possibly the anatomical structure of the sonorous organs of these Cicadæ did not exactly resemble the wind-bag, and reed, and pipe of our biped bagpipers.
b. The lungs (also pl.); the chest or body considered as a receptacle of breath. Now only jocular.
1552Huloet, Wynde bagge of a man out of the which the winde passeth, and commeth forthe. 1565Cooper Thesaurus ii. s.v. Anaxarchus, He doubled these woordes worthy of remembraunce: Beate on, beate on Anaxarchus wynde bag: for Anaxarchus thou beatest not: accomptinge his body but a bagge full of wynde. 1860W. W. Reade Liberty Hall I. i. 10 The dubious condition of his wind⁓bags occasioned him considerable..distress.
c. An inflated bag used as a charm to ensure a favourable wind.
1870Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 202 From witch-wives have I bought ere now Wind-bags indeed, but yet did trow Nothing therein.
2. fig. (contemptuous). An empty pretender, or something pretentious but unsubstantial; esp. a voluble and senseless talker. (Cf. wind n.1 11 b, 14.)
1827Carlyle Misc., Richter (1869) 10 Consigned..to the Limbo appointed for all such windbags and deceptions. 1894Sala London up to date ii. xxii. 343 He is at best a noisy wind-bag and braggart.
3. Naut. slang. A sailing ship or ‘windjammer’.
1924R. Clements Gipsy of Horn 11 A sailing ship—an old wind-bag, as the young, up-to-date watchkeeper would call it. 1930J. Masefield Wanderer of Liverpool 47 A crowd of windbags moored fore and aft, to buoyed anchors. 1946W. McFee In First Watch i. 15 He had been cook in a windbag and a sailor before the mast.
Hence ˈwind-bagged a., furnished with a wind-bag (sense 1 a); ˈwindˌbaggery, inflated talk.
1606J. Reynolds Dolarnys Primerose (1880) 118 There might be heard, the hollowe *wind bag'd droan's, with direfull roaring.
1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 396 Irremediably pin-perforated *windbaggery. 1920Sat. Westm. Gaz. 21 May 4/2 The stunt press, which greatly prides itself on its inexhaustible windbaggery on this subject. |