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Definition of Blowhards
1. blowhard [n] - See also: blowhard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blowhards
Literary usage of Blowhards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Army Life of an Illinois Soldier: Including a Day by Day Record of Sherman's by Charles Wright Wills (1906)
"They are an awful set of blowhards. Sid., Theo., Ben Rockhold and John Wallace
arc on picket out of our mess to-night. The picket was fired on last night ..."
2. The Upward Leading: Pulpit Talks Under Various Auspices by James Henry Potts (1905)
"blowhards are the pests of society. There is the political blowhard. He always
has the best of the argument because he can bellow the loudest and hold out ..."
3. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. a Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1886)
"... to have drunk a stirrup cup, one by one the old blowhards crept up the companion,
and soon were rowed on board their respective vessels. ..."
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