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bombast

Noun

∙ Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.
∙ Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding.
∙ High-sounding words; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking; language above the dignity of the occasion. figuratively

Verb

∙ To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.

Adjective

∙ High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.

BABYLON ENGLISH
bombast n.
trite cliches, hackneyed expressions, empty words

HENGLISH - ADVANCED VERSION
bombast
bombast
\bom*bast"\ (b&obreve;m*b&adot;st" or bŭm*b&adot;st"), v. t. to swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [obs.] not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed. [
bombast
\bom"bast\ (b&obreve;m"b&adot;st or bŭm"b&adot;st; 277), n. [of. bombace cotton, ll. bombax cotton, bombasium a doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. see bombazine.]
1. originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [obs.] a candle with a wick of bombast.
2. cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. [obs.] how now, my sweet creature of bombast! doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of bombast at least.
3. fig.: high-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian. yet noisy bombast carefully avoid.
bombast
\bom"bast\, a. high-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic. [he] evades them with a bombast circumstance, horribly stuffed with epithets of war. nor a tall metaphor in bombast way. owley.
bombast
n : pompous or pretentious talk or writing [syn: fustian, rant, claptrap, blah]

WORDNET 2.0
bombast
Noun
1. pompous or pretentious talk or writing
(synonym) fustian, rant, claptrap, blah
(hypernym) grandiosity, magniloquence, grandiloquence, rhetoric

ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA - THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA
Fustian
Fustian is a variety of heavy cloth woven from cotton, chiefly prepared for menswear. It is also used figuratively to refer to pompous, inflated or pretentious writing or speech, from at least the time of Shakespeare. This literary use is because the cloth type was often used as padding, hence, the purposeless words are fustian.
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WIKTIONARY - Yabla

bombast

Noun

∙ Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.
∙ Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding.
∙ High-sounding words; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking; language above the dignity of the occasion. figuratively

Verb

∙ To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.

Adjective

∙ High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.

BABYLON ENGLISH
bombast n.
trite cliches, hackneyed expressions, empty words

HENGLISH - ADVANCED VERSION
bombast
bombast
\bom*bast"\ (b&obreve;m*b&adot;st" or bŭm*b&adot;st"), v. t. to swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [obs.] not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed. [
bombast
\bom"bast\ (b&obreve;m"b&adot;st or bŭm"b&adot;st; 277), n. [of. bombace cotton, ll. bombax cotton, bombasium a doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. see bombazine.]
1. originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [obs.] a candle with a wick of bombast.
2. cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. [obs.] how now, my sweet creature of bombast! doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of bombast at least.
3. fig.: high-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian. yet noisy bombast carefully avoid.
bombast
\bom"bast\, a. high-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic. [he] evades them with a bombast circumstance, horribly stuffed with epithets of war. nor a tall metaphor in bombast way. owley.
bombast
n : pompous or pretentious talk or writing [syn: fustian, rant, claptrap, blah]

WORDNET 2.0
bombast
Noun
1. pompous or pretentious talk or writing
(synonym) fustian, rant, claptrap, blah
(hypernym) grandiosity, magniloquence, grandiloquence, rhetoric

ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA - THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA
Fustian
Fustian is a variety of heavy cloth woven from cotton, chiefly prepared for menswear. It is also used figuratively to refer to pompous, inflated or pretentious writing or speech, from at least the time of Shakespeare. This literary use is because the cloth type was often used as padding, hence, the purposeless words are fustian.
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