Blimp
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9.9
- noun
- /blɪmp/
- Offensive
:
reaccionario (despectivo)
- My grandfather is a real blimp, always complaining about new ideas and people.
Examples
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As I said, I am an old Colonel Blimp type and am clearly out of touch with modern warfare in the internet age.
Blog text (4) -
Well, Titus, you old blimp, you!
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He'd been a blimp for the first two years of high school, and that's how he was universally perceived for the last two.
Fiction book (2001) -
Since I am an old col blimp type, my position is that the less that can be discussed about deployments, locations, missions, and all ends up saving our serving service members' lives—but I am an old fart.
Blog text (4) -
Americans tend to visualize a London men's club as a bunch of old Blimps who doze away the afternoon in leather chairs, waking up occasionally to curse their gout or the Socialists.
Fiction book (1995) -
At the meeting, his blimp attitude made it clear he was against any form of progress.
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The critics described the politician as a blimp, out of touch with the needs of the younger generation.
Synonyms
A person who thinks they are better than others and dislikes change
Compounds
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Blimp comes from the cartoon character Colonel Blimp, created by Sir David Low to mock old, proud officers who were out of touch. Think of a blimp, a large airship that looks puffed up and 'full of hot air', and you see why Blimp now means an elderly, pompous person who resists change.