Meaning of airmonger | Babel Free

Definitions

A hopeless visionary, a quixotic or unrealistic schemer.

Examples

“Check thy self, thou Air-monger; that with a madding thought, thus chasest fleeting shadows.”

“Thus Men puff up themselves as big as Pride and Vanty can make them, with a conceit of their own Meritoriousness; tho it be a sordid thing for a man to be the Herald of his own Praise: But it may be said of these Airmongers as it is of the Cameleon, which is […] Nothing but Lungs […]”

“At the same time, we would be no Marxists but philistines and air-mongers if we failed to take into consideration the other side of the question — the inevitability and exceptional importance for socialist construction of the material incentive of the masses with regard to the fruit of their work.”

“It seemed that I was only an air-monger who built castles in the air. I failed! I lost! I was weak!”

“She would be muttering to the ewes—Where has that old airmonger gone now? What daydreams have taken him wandering?”

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