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‖ trombenik, n. U.S. slang.|ˈtrɒmbənɪk| Also trombenick. [Yiddish, f. tromba trumpet, horn + -nik -nik; cf. trombone n., trumpet n.] One who boasts or brags; hence, any idle, dissolute, or conceited person. Cf. to blow one's own trumpet s.v. trumpet n. 3.
1931‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route ii. 25 For Jewish hobos, the trombenicks of the road, every road is always milk and honey. 1951N. Ausubel Treas. Jewish Humor 515 A trombenik constantly toots his own horn. 1968L. Rosten Joys of Yiddish 407 ‘I’, boasted the trombenik, ‘have been to Europe three times in the past two years.’ 1979J. Heller Good as Gold (1980) viii. 366 The gaudy militarism of the portly trombenik was more Germanic than Jewish. |