vapourer
A man at the bar is known as a real vapourer, always telling exaggerated stories.
Definition
- Noun:
- A person who boasts or brags: "vapourer" refers to someone who speaks with excessive pride or exaggeration about their own achievements or possessions.
- A person who talks idly or foolishly: "vapourer" also means someone who engages in empty, trivial, or nonsensical conversation.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- He is such a vapourer; he never stops talking about his wealth and success. (A person who boasts constantly.)
- Don't listen to that vapourer; his stories are all lies and exaggerations. (A person who talks idly or foolishly.)
Advanced Usage
- "to vapour" (verb, related): to talk in a boastful or idle manner.
- She spent the whole evening vapouring about her travels. (She boasted excessively about her trips.)
Variants and Related Words
Vapour (n): a substance in a gaseous state; also used figuratively for empty talk.
- His promises were just vapour, with no real substance. (Empty, insubstantial talk.)
Vapouring (adj, n): the act of boasting or talking idly.
- His vapouring annoyed everyone at the party. (His boastful talk.)
Synonyms
- Boaster: a person who brags.
- Braggart: a person who boasts loudly and persistently.
- Windbag: a person who talks too much in a tedious or boastful way.
- Gasbag: a person who talks excessively and emptily.
Related Idioms
Hot air: empty, boastful talk.
- All his promises were just hot air. (Boastful talk with no real meaning.)
Blow one's own trumpet: to boast about one's own achievements.
- He is always blowing his own trumpet, a true vapourer. (Boasting about himself.)