Ventose

Word of the Day for Sunday, May 27, 2012

ventose \VEN-tohs\, adjective:

Given to empty talk; windy.

Anyhow, it is better to wind up that way than to go growling out one's existence as a ventose hypochondriac.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

The ventose orator was confounded, and put himself and his glass down together.
-- L. J. Bigelow, Bench and Bar

First used in English in the 1700s, ventose is derived from the Latin word for wind, "vent." 

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