hot air
noun
1 hot air
Air that has been heated and tends to rise.
Roget 884:
boasting
etc.
v.;
boast,
vaunt,
crake†;
pretense,
pretensions;
puff,
puffery;
flourish,
fanfaronade†;
gasconade;
blague†,
bluff,
gas [Slang];
highfalutin,
highfaluting†;
hot air,
spread-eagleism [U.S.];
brag,
braggardism†;
bravado,
bunkum,
buncombe;
jactitation†,
jactancy†;
bounce;
venditation†,
vaporing,
rodomontade,
bombast,
fine talking,
tall talk,
magniloquence,
teratology†,
heroics;
Chauvinism;
exaggeration
etc.
549.
vanity
etc.
880;
vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.];
much cry and little wool,
brutum fulmen [Lat.].
exultation;
gloriation†,
glorification;
flourish of trumpets;
triumph
etc.
883.
boaster;
braggart,
braggadocio;
Gascon [Fr.],
fanfaron†,
pretender,
soi-disant [Fr.];
blower [U.S.],
bluffer,
Foxy Quiller†;
blusterer
etc.
887;
charlatan,
jack-pudding,
trumpeter;
puppy
etc.
(fop)
854.
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2 hot air
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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