different between windbag vs airbag

English

Etymology

From Middle English wyndbagge, equivalent to wind +? bag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?nd?bæ?/
• Hyphenation: wind?bag
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

windbag (plural windbags)

1. (archaic) Bellows for an organ.
2. (mildly derogatory) Someone who talks excessively.

Synonyms

• (person): gasbag, bag of wind, bloviator; see also Thesaurus:chatterbox

Translations

Verb

windbag (third-person singular simple present windbags, present participle windbagging, simple past and past participle windbagged)

1. To talk pompously or excessively.

Anagrams

• bawding, dawbing

English

Etymology

From air +? bag.

Pronunciation

Noun

airbag (plural airbags)

1. (automotive) A protective system in automobiles in which when a crash occurs, a bag containing nitrogen, formed by the explosive decomposition of sodium azide, quickly inflates in front of the driver or passenger, preventing injury to the head. Side air bags, including the back seat passengers, also prevent injury.
2. A similar inflated bag used in performing stunts, etc.
   • 2005, Alan Tussy, R. Gustafson, Developmental Mathematics for College Students (page 1030)

     As part of a scene in a movie, a stuntman falls from the top of a 95-foot-tall building into a large airbag directly below him on the ground, as shown in Figure 15-3.

3. (slang) A person who talks too much; a windbag or gossip.

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English airbag.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /???r.b??/
• Hyphenation: air?bag

Noun

airbag m (plural airbags, diminutive airbagje n)

1. An airbag.

   Synonym: botsballon

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English airbag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.ba?/

Noun

airbag m (plural airbags)

1. airbag
2. (in the plural, slang) knockers, tits

Further reading

• “airbag” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English airbag.

Noun

airbag m (invariable)

1. airbag (protective system)

Anagrams

• garbai

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English airbag.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /??.?b?.?i/

Noun

airbag m (plural airbags)

1. airbag

Spanish

Alternative forms

• air bag

Etymology

Borrowed from English airbag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e??ba?/, [e????a??]

Noun

airbag m (plural airbags)

1. airbag
   • 1997, Jesús Calvo Martín, Mecánica del automóvil actual, Reverte (?ISBN), page 218:

Further reading

• “airbag” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

From English airbag

Noun

airbag c

1. an airbag

Declension

Synonyms

• krockkudde

Anagrams

• braiga