bombast
Meaning
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- Cotton, or cotton wool.
- Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing, padding.
- High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.
Synonyms
empty talk
pad ding
Hyphenated as
bom‧bast
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbɒmbæst/
Etymology
From Old French bombace (“cotton, cotton wadding”), from Late Latin bombax (“cotton”), a variant of bombyx (“silkworm”), from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux, “silkworm”), possibly related to Middle Persian pmbk' (“cotton”), from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to twist, wind”.
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