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bombast    音標拼音: [b'ɑmbæst]
n. 夸大的言辭

誇大的言辭

bombast
n 1: pompous or pretentious talk or writing [synonym: {bombast},
{fustian}, {rant}, {claptrap}, {blah}]

Bombast \Bom"bast\ (b[o^]m"b[.a]st or b[u^]m"b[.a]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.]
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A candle with a wick of bombast. --Lupton.
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2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing
for garments; stuffing; padding. [Obs.]
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How now, my sweet creature of bombast! --Shak.
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Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of
bombast at least. --Stubbes.
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3. Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language
above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
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Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid. --Dryden.
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Bombast \Bom"bast\, a.
High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent;
bombastic.
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[He] evades them with a bombast circumstance,
Horribly stuffed with epithets of war. --Shak.
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Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way. --Cowley.
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Bombast \Bom*bast"\ (b[o^]m*b[.a]st" or b[u^]m*b[.a]st"), v. t.
To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [Obs.]
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Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed.
--Drayton.
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90 Moby Thesaurus words for "bombast":
absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash,
bibble-babble, blabber, blather, bluster, boast, boastfulness,
boasting, bombastry, brag, braggadocio, braggartism, bragging,
bravado, claptrap, conceit, double-talk, drivel, drool,
fanfaronade, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flatulence, flummery,
folderol, fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gasconade,
gasconism, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook,
grandiloquence, heroics, highfalutin, hocus-pocus, hot air, humbug,
jabber, jactation, jactitation, jargon, lexiphanicism,
magniloquence, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense,
orotundity, pack of nonsense, palaver, prate, prattle, puffery,
pyrotechnics, rant, rhapsody, rhetoric, rigamarole, rigmarole,
rodomontade, rubbish, sesquipedality, show, side, skimble-skamble,
stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, swagger, trash, trumpery,
tumidity, turgidity, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vanity,
vaporing, vaunt, vauntery, vaunting, waffling

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