Barnumizev.
/ˈbɑːnəmʌɪz/ To exhibit with a lavish display of puffing advertisements.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > types or methods of advertising > [verb (transitive)] > advertise ostentatiously or extravagantly
quack1646
puff1734
Barnumize1851
boom1879
ballyhoo1911
1851 W. B. Hodgson in Life (1883) vi. 87 Barnumised and puffed as Napoleon has been, he is not popular.
1852 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 72 307 Barnumizing the prodigy through Europe.
Derivatives
Barnumism n. exaggerated advertising or display, boastful ‘tall talk’.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > inflated or bombastic style > bombast
thundering1564
bombast1589
fustiana1593
taratantara1599
bombard-phrasea1637
heroics1638
bombacea1661
rant1662
Lexiphanicism1767
streperosity1772
puff1821
taffeta1821
polyphloisboioism1823
flabbergast1831
highfalutin1847
highfalutination1858
carmagnole1860
Barnumism1862
ballyhoo1901
1862 Daily Tel. 20 Oct. It is Barnumism that prompts clergymen to tell their flocks that they must fight the Confederates till Hell freezes, and then fight them on the ice.
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