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1) General subject: battology, empty rhetoric, froth, jabberwocky, mere declamation, mere verbiage, play of words, plethora of words, prate, rant, semantics, slipslop, stultiloquence, stultiloquy, tittle-tattle, tootle, twaddle, vacuity, vapouring, verbiage (to lose oneself in verbiage - запутаться в собственном красноречии), windiness, idle talk, lip service3) Diplomatic term: windbaggery4) Psychology: verbalism5) Makarov: wash, windy eloquence, windy rhetoric -
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неодобр.windbaggery, rant, windy eloquence / rhetoric twaddle, empty chatter
См. также в других словарях:
windbaggery — wind·bag·gery … English syllables
windbaggery — “+ərē noun ( es) Etymology: windbag + ery : pompous meaningless talk * * * windˈbaggery noun (informal) The output of a windbag or empty talker • • • Main Entry: ↑wind … Useful english dictionary
windbag — windbaggery, n. /wind bag /, n. 1. Informal. an empty, voluble, pretentious talker. 2. the bag of a bagpipe. [1425 75; late ME; see WIND1, BAG] * * * … Universalium
windbag — noun informal a person who talks a lot but says little of any value. Derivatives windbaggery noun … English new terms dictionary
