1. a person who talks too much in a boastful or self-important way
Usage: informal

Examples

• Don’t listen to that blowhard; he exaggerates everything.
• The politician was dismissed as just another blowhard making empty promises.
• My uncle is such a blowhard when he talks about his fishing trips.
• She couldn’t stand working with the blowhard who claimed credit for everyone’s ideas.
• The blowhard at the party wouldn’t stop talking about his expensive car.
• Everyone avoided the office blowhard during lunch breaks.