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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.