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blowhard

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braggart
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Blowhard Rex Ryan, fired by the Jets after fizzling out with no good teams in four years, takes the job at Buffalo and immediately announces that his first priority is the Patriots.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2015

As expected, Blowhard Ali filled the tropical city with enough hot air to start a new front moving across Asia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Go to Barlow's and to Green's, and to Block and Blowhard.

From Ralph the Heir by Trollope, Anthony

The ship is bound to sink," he said, "in fact, Blowhard, she is sinking.

From Nonsense Novels by Leacock, Stephen

I see that Sir Benjamin Blowhard, old Grummet, poor Marlin, and Kelson, Lord Figgins, as we used to call him, Dick Dotheboys, and Oakum, have gone the way of all flesh.

From The Three Admirals by Wells, J.R.




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