1) Blah 2) Boasting 3) Claptrap 4) Fustian 5) Gas 6) Hotair 7) Rant 8) Rhetoric 9) Tympany
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1) Blah 2) Claptrap 3) French word used in English 4) Fustian 5) Gassy talk 6) Grandiloquence 7) Grandiosity 8) High-sounding words 9) Magniloquence 10) Overblown speech 11) Padding 12) Pompous language 13) Pompous or overblown language 14) Pompous oratory 15) Pompous speech 16) Pompous talk 17) Pretentious speech
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hyperbolic or wildly exaggerating speech, so-called after a kind of cotton stuffing.
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• (n.) Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. • (n.) Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian. • (n.) Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. • (v. t.) To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. • (a.) High-sounding; inflat...
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Hyperbolic or wildly exaggerating speech, so-called after a kind of cotton stuffing.
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Bom'bast (bŏm'bȧst
or bŭm'bȧst; 277)
noun [ Old French
bombace cotton, Late Latin
bombax cotton,
bombasium a doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See
Bombazine .]
1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [ Obsolete] &...
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Bom'bast adjective High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic. « [ He] evades them with a
bombast circumstance, Horribly stuffed with epithets of war.
Shak. » « Nor a tall metaphor in
bombast way.
Cowley. »
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Bom·bast' (bŏm*bȧst'
or bŭm*bȧst')
transitive verb To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [ Obsolete] « Not
bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed.
Drayton. »
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Pompous or overblown language.
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[
n] - pompous or pretentious talk or writing
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bombast 1. Speech too pompous for an occasion; pretentious words. 2. Grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing. 3. Language that is intentionally difficult, usually to make something sound more important than it really is. 4. Inflated or turgid language; high-sounding language on a trivial or commonplace subject; 'fustian'; 'tall talk'. 5. Cotto...
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fustian noun pompous or pretentious talk or writing
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Inflated or high-sounding language. Pistol, from Shakespeare's play
Henry V, is characterized by his use of bombastic language: `Let gallows gape for dog; let man go free,/And let not hemp his windpipe suffocate.` can be expressed simply as `Hang dogs but not men`
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speech too pompous for an occasion; pretentious words. · cotton or other material used to stuff garments; padding.
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pompous or pretentious talk or writing
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pompous or pretentious talk or writing
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