hot air

• POS: Noun Phrase

THESAURUS

hot air

babble, babblement, balderdash, baloney, bavardage, bibble-babble, big talk, bilge, blab, blabber, blah, blah-blah, blather, blether, blethers, bombast, bombastry, bop, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, cackle, caquet, caqueterie, chat, chatter, chitter-chatter, clack, clatter, crap, fancy talk, fine talk, fire storm, fish story, flapdoodle, fustian, gab, gabble, gas, gibber, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, gossip, guff, gup, highfalutin, highfaluting, hogwash, hokum, hooey, idle talk, jabber, malarkey, mere talk, moonshine, natter, nonsense talk, palaver, piffle, poppycock, prate, prating, prattle, prittle-prattle, rant, rodomontade, rot, scat, shit, superheated air, talkee-talkee, tall story, tall talk, thermal, tittle-tattle, tommyrot, tripe, twaddle, twattle, wind, yak, yakkety-yak

ROGET THESAURUS

hot air

Boasting

N boasting, boast, vaunt, crake, pretense, pretensions, puff, puffery, flourish, fanfaronade, gasconade, blague, bluff, gas, highfalutin, highfaluting, hot air, spread-eagleism, brag, braggardism, bravado, bunkum, buncombe, jactitation, jactancy, bounce, venditation, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology, heroics, Chauvinism, exaggeration, vanity, vox et praeterea nihil, much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen, exultation, gloriation, glorification, flourish of trumpets, triumph, boaster, braggart, braggadocio, Gascon, fanfaron, pretender, soi-disant, blower, bluffer, Foxy Quiller, blusterer, charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter, puppy, boasting, magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant, vainglorious, highfalutin, highfaluting, spread- eagle, elate, elated, jubilant, triumphant, exultant, in high feather, flushed, flushed with victory, cock-a-hoop, on stilts, vaunted, vauntingly, let the galled jade wince, facta non verba.