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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : bom-bast |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbɒm bæst |
Definition of bombast
Origin :- 1560s, "cotton padding," corrupted from earlier bombace (1550s), from Old French bombace "cotton, cotton wadding," from Late Latin bombacem, accusative of bombax "cotton, 'linteorum aut aliae quaevis quisquiliae,' " a corruption and transferred use of Latin bombyx "silk," from Greek bombyx "silk, silkworm" (which also came to mean "cotton" in Medieval Greek), from some oriental word, perhaps related to Iranian pambak (modern panba) or Armenian bambok, perhaps ultimately from a PIE root meaning "to twist, wind." From stuffing and padding for clothes or upholstery, meaning extended to "pompous, empty speech" (1580s).
- Also from the same source are Swedish bomull, Danish bomuld "cotton," and, via Turkish forms, Modern Greek mpampaki, Rumanian bumbac, Serbo-Croatian pamuk. German baumwolle "cotton" is probably from the Latin word but altered by folk-etymology to look like "tree wool." Polish bawełna, Lithuanian bovelna are partial translations from German.
- noun boasting
- The more I see of them the more I get tired of their bombast and their empty talk.
- Extract from : « A Girl of the Commune » by George Alfred Henty
- This German-creed sweeps the earth with all the bombast of a war-mad Kaiser.
- Extract from : « The Sequel » by George A. Taylor
- The bombast and ignorance shown in some of these is very amusing.
- Extract from : « Diary in America, Series Two » by Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)
- After all, what is is, and neither falsehood nor bombast will alter it.
- Extract from : « The German War » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Its boyishness and immaturity, its stiffness and bombast, are perceptible on every page.
- Extract from : « Tobias Smollett » by Oliphant Smeaton
- She, in reply, warns him not to give way to bombast and empty pathos.
- Extract from : « Schopenhauer » by Margrieta Beer
- And never was I more frightened than when uttering that bombast.
- Extract from : « Eastern Nights - and Flights » by Alan Bott
- It was all talk—all wind—all fustian—all bombast—all theory.
- Extract from : « The Fall of a Nation » by Thomas Dixon
- We have no longer the bombast and unreality of the revolutionary epic.
- Extract from : « The Earl of Beaconsfield » by James Anthony Froude
- It's figurativ' and poetic, but it's within the line that divides taste from bombast.
- Extract from : « The Attache » by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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