bombast

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Cotton, or cotton wool.
2. isim Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing, padding.

   “[C]ertayne I am there was neuer any kinde of apparell euer inuented, that could more diſproportion the body of man, then theſe Dublettes with great bellies hanging downe beneath their Pudenda, (as I haue ſayd) & ſtuffed with foure, fiue, or ſixe pound of Bombaſt at the least: [...]”

3. isim High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.

   “Bombaſt and Buffoonry, by Nature lofty and light, ſoar higheſt of all, [...]”

4. fiil To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.
5. fiil To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.

   “[']The ugly truth is, Gerald,' she said viciously, 'that you're a phoney, a rotten, bombasting phoney, trying to cover up from all the world,[…][']”

6. sıfat Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.

   “But he (as louing his owne pride, and purpoſes) / Euades them, with a bumbaſt Circumſtance, / Horribly ſtufft with Epithites of warre, / Non-ſuites my Mediators.”