gasbag

Other forms of gasbag

plural

gasbags·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gasbag

What does gasbag mean?

gasbag means "a boring person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gasbag?

gasbag has 2 syllables: gas-bag. The stress falls on "gas".

What is another word for gasbag?

Close synonyms include windbag, envelope. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gasbag a common word?

gasbag is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.