bombastn.

/ˈbɒmbəst/

/ˈbɒmbast/

/ˈbʌmbəst/

/ˈbʌmbast/

Forms: 1500s bombaste, bumbaste, 1500s–1700s bumbast, 1500s– bombast.

Etymology: A variant of bombace n., bombase (French bombace ), in 16th cent. pronounced /bɔmˈbaːs/, the t being either simply phonetic (the converse of bass , bast ) or perhaps influenced by the past participle bombast of bombase v. Originally accented on second syllable, as still in Byron: but already in Shakespeare on the first. Most dictionaries make the first syllable /bʌm-/, but contemporary usage favours /bɒm-/.

†1.

a. The soft down of the cotton-plant; raw cotton; cotton-wool. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > cotton > [noun]

bombace1553

bombazine1555

bombice1559

wood-wool1559

bombast1568

bombasie1576

cotton wool1589

cottona1625

cotton wools1638

1568 T. Howell Arbor of Amitie f. 22 From all meate soft, as wooll and flaxe, bombaste and winds that bloe.

1582 J. Hester tr. L. Fioravanti Compend. Rationall Secretes ii. xx. 99 Wet a little Bumbast in our Caustick.

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 753 Called..in English and French Cotton, Bombaste, or Bombace.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 15 The head [of the Cotton plant]..ripening breakes, and is deliuered of a white soft Bombast.

1665 G. Havers tr. P. della Valle Trav. E. India 23 Which linnen..is altogether of Bumbast or Cotton, (there being no Flax in India).

†b. attributive. Cotton. Obsolete.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > cotton > [adjective]

bombast1588

cotton wool1648

bombastious1824

1588 T. Hickock tr. C. Federici Voy. & Trauaile f. 11^v Scarlet, or white bumbast cloth.

1600 T. Dekker Shomakers Holiday sig. B4^v You bombast cotten-candle-queane.

1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais in Wks. (1737) III. xli. 139 The bumbast and cotton bushes.

†2.

a. Cotton-wool used as padding or stuffing for clothes, etc. Obsolete exc. Historical.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > treated or processed textiles > [noun] > cotton

bombast1572

bombace1592

carding1600

cotton wool1857

nitrocotton1867

batting1875

lint1877

delint1896

viscose1896

linters1903

1572 G. Gascoigne Councell to Withipoll To stuff thy doublet full of such bumbaste.

1601 R. J. Kingd. & Commw. 140 Iacks quilted with bombast to resist arrowes.

1685 J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice ii. 18 For the inside; do you like much Bombast, Madam?

1849 Mem. Kirkaldy of Gr. viii. 77 Their large..trunk-hose, being quilted and stuffed with bombast.

†b. figurative. Padding, stuffing; stopping of the ears.

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > [noun] > ear-plug

bombast1575

masking1579

ear-plug1842

stopple1961

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > action of padding > matter used as padding

stuffing1551

bombast1575

fill-space1827

skip1833

padding1861

Polyfilla1979

1575 G. Gascoigne Wks. (1587) 83 It hath no bumbast now, but skin and bones.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 773 As bombast and as lyning to the time.

1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd x. 120 Frame..for your eares the bumbast or stuffing of sufferance and bearing.

a. figurative. Inflated or turgid language; high-sounding language on a trivial or commonplace subject; ‘fustian’; ‘tall talk’. [This sense has been erroneously supposed to have originated in the name of Paracelsus (P. A. T. Bombast von Hohenheim).]

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

1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. ** To outbraue better pens with the swelling bumbast of a bragging blanke verse.

a1625 J. Fletcher Chances v. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ccc^v/2 I like his words well, there's no bumbast in 'em.

1710 A. Pope Corr. 17 Dec. (1956) I. 110 The ambition of surprising a reader, is the true natural cause of all Fustian, or Bombast in Poetry.

1762 Ld. Kames Elements Crit. I. iv. 303 False sublime, known by the name of bombast.

1811 Ld. Byron Hints from Horace 44 Another soars, inflated with bombast.

1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. xii. 165 Their eloquence is all bombast.

b. transferred.

ΚΠ

1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 221 What might be called mental bombast, as distinguished from verbal.

1821 W. M. Craig Lect. Drawing iv. 213 I have insuperable objections to this sort of bombast in painting.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

bombastadj.

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s bumbast(e.

Etymology: past participle of bombase v. to stuff; but in later use hardly separable from bombast n. used attributively.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbombast.

†1. Stuffed, padded, puffed out. Obsolete.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > having specific parts > padding

stuffed1467

bombast1575

bombasted1583

bummed1611

gamboised1821

1575 G. Gascoigne Wks. (1587) 157 Hys bombast hose wyth linings manifold.

1656 Disc. Auxiliary Beauty 44 A bumbast or bolstered garment.

2. figurative. Puffed, empty, inflated; over-elaborate. Of language: Turgid, grandiloquent, bombastic.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > inflated or bombastic

fleshyc1369

windya1382

unmeasureda1425

puffing1566

embossed1578

puffed1587

bombasted1589

fustian1592

puffya1594

full-mouthed1594

orificial1594

gouty1595

swelling1597

mouth-filling1598

taffeta1598

bombast1601

tiptoe-strouting1602

turgidous1602

swollen1605

dropsieda1616

exsufflicatea1616

turgent1621

ampullous1622

tympanous1625

high-flown1632

tumorousa1637

blustered1638

tumid1648

bombastical1649

ranting1650

inflated1652

tuftaffetya1658

pompiona1670

bombastic1704

dropsical1721

thundering1725

turgid1725

exsuffolate1744

Lexiphanic1767

hi cockalorum1783

Ossianic1788

mouthing1814

mouthy1827

sophomoric1837

highfalutin1839

sophomorical1847

spread eagle1853

tumescent1882

Herodian1886

Ossianesque1889

Barnumesque1890

1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. iv. sig. H I do hate these bumbaste wits, That are puft vp with arrogant conceit.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. i. 13 A bumbast circumstance, Horribly stuft with Epithites of warre.

1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick 122 He scorns to be frightened at a Bombast word, or Fustian Term.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1802) VI. 134 (note) Forty bombast lines.

1834 Fraser's Mag. 10 435 A frothy, verbose, and bombast writer.

1842 S. R. Maitland Notes Foxe's Martyrs ii. 26.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

bombastv.

Etymology: < bombast n., which see for pronunciation: in the verb the accent is more frequently on the final syllable.

archaic.

†1. To stuff, pad, or fill out with cotton-wool, or the like. Obsolete.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > tailor or make clothes [verb (transitive)] > stuff or pad

bombase1558

bombast1565

baste1577

1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare To Rdr. sig. ¶3 To coouer the smalnesse..of their bodies, [he] had bomebasted, and embossed out their coates.

1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas Epil. 82 [They] bumbast, bolster, frisle and perfume.

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis xvi. 162 They bumbast their Doublets.

1820 W. Scott Abbot I. xv. 317 My stomach has no room for it; it is..too well bumbasted out with straw and buckram.

a. figurative and transferred. To stuff, swell out, inflate.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > exaggerate [verb (transitive)]

flatter?c1225

engregec1386

enhancec1400

extol?1504

extend1509

aggravate1533

exagger1535

blowa1538

amplify1561

exasperate1561

bombast1566

aggerate1570

enlarge1592

rengrege1601

exaggerate1604

magnify1605

hyperbolize1609

to slobber over ——1761

bloat1896

over-heighten1904

overpitch1904

overblow1961

inflate1982

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > express copiously [verb (transitive)] > pad

bombast1566

intraverse1607

word1646

pad1831

quad1876

1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Medea iv. f. 40 Her hawty breste bumbasted is wyth pryde.

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 37 The first should haue his gut bumbasted with biefe.

1607 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois iii. 32 A great man..that by his greatnesse Bumbasts his priuate roofes, with publique riches.

?1624 T. Scott Vox Dei 68 A place and people that..bombasted their reputations with the winde of complement.

1633 T. Heywood Eng. Traveller Prol Not so much..As Song, Dance, Masque, to bumbaste out a Play.

1822 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 27 34 The want of incidents..he has endeavoured to supply by invention, and in bombasting the fable with machinery.

b. To swell out, render grandiose (a speech or literary composition) with bombastic language.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > embellish [verb (transitive)] > make bombastic

to emboss1564

bombast1573

starch1656

tumefy1677

1573 R. Scot Perfite Platf. of Hoppe Garden (1578) Epist. Not bumbasting the same with the figures and flowers of eloquence.

1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. i. iv. 10 Then striues he to bumbast his feeble lines With farre-fetcht phrase.

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxv. 83 That doth..bumbast his labors with high swelling and heaven-disimbowelling wordes.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

n.1568

adj.1575

v.1565

单词	bombast
释义	bombastn. /ˈbɒmbəst//ˈbɒmbast//ˈbʌmbəst//ˈbʌmbast/ Forms: 1500s bombaste, bumbaste, 1500s–1700s bumbast, 1500s– bombast. Etymology: A variant of bombace n., bombase (French bombace ), in 16th cent. pronounced /bɔmˈbaːs/, the t being either simply phonetic (the converse of bass , bast ) or perhaps influenced by the past participle bombast of bombase v. Originally accented on second syllable, as still in Byron: but already in Shakespeare on the first. Most dictionaries make the first syllable /bʌm-/, but contemporary usage favours /bɒm-/. †1. a. The soft down of the cotton-plant; raw cotton; cotton-wool. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > cotton > [noun] bombace1553 bombazine1555 bombice1559 wood-wool1559 bombast1568 bombasie1576 cotton wool1589 cottona1625 cotton wools1638 1568 T. Howell Arbor of Amitie f. 22 From all meate soft, as wooll and flaxe, bombaste and winds that bloe. 1582 J. Hester tr. L. Fioravanti Compend. Rationall Secretes ii. xx. 99 Wet a little Bumbast in our Caustick. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 753 Called..in English and French Cotton, Bombaste, or Bombace. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 15 The head [of the Cotton plant]..ripening breakes, and is deliuered of a white soft Bombast. 1665 G. Havers tr. P. della Valle Trav. E. India 23 Which linnen..is altogether of Bumbast or Cotton, (there being no Flax in India). †b. attributive. Cotton. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > cotton > [adjective] bombast1588 cotton wool1648 bombastious1824 1588 T. Hickock tr. C. Federici Voy. & Trauaile f. 11^v Scarlet, or white bumbast cloth. 1600 T. Dekker Shomakers Holiday sig. B4^v You bombast cotten-candle-queane. 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais in Wks. (1737) III. xli. 139 The bumbast and cotton bushes. †2. a. Cotton-wool used as padding or stuffing for clothes, etc. Obsolete exc. Historical. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > treated or processed textiles > [noun] > cotton bombast1572 bombace1592 carding1600 cotton wool1857 nitrocotton1867 batting1875 lint1877 delint1896 viscose1896 linters1903 1572 G. Gascoigne Councell to Withipoll To stuff thy doublet full of such bumbaste. 1601 R. J. Kingd. & Commw. 140 Iacks quilted with bombast to resist arrowes. 1685 J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice ii. 18 For the inside; do you like much Bombast, Madam? 1849 Mem. Kirkaldy of Gr. viii. 77 Their large..trunk-hose, being quilted and stuffed with bombast. †b. figurative. Padding, stuffing; stopping of the ears. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > [noun] > ear-plug bombast1575 masking1579 ear-plug1842 stopple1961 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > action of padding > matter used as padding stuffing1551 bombast1575 fill-space1827 skip1833 padding1861 Polyfilla1979 1575 G. Gascoigne Wks. (1587) 83 It hath no bumbast now, but skin and bones. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 773 As bombast and as lyning to the time. View more context for this quotation 1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd x. 120 Frame..for your eares the bumbast or stuffing of sufferance and bearing. 3. a. figurative. Inflated or turgid language; high-sounding language on a trivial or commonplace subject; ‘fustian’; ‘tall talk’. [This sense has been erroneously supposed to have originated in the name of Paracelsus (P. A. T. Bombast von Hohenheim).] 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 1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. ** To outbraue better pens with the swelling bumbast of a bragging blanke verse. a1625 J. Fletcher Chances v. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ccc^v/2 I like his words well, there's no bumbast in 'em. 1710 A. Pope Corr. 17 Dec. (1956) I. 110 The ambition of surprising a reader, is the true natural cause of all Fustian, or Bombast in Poetry. 1762 Ld. Kames Elements Crit. I. iv. 303 False sublime, known by the name of bombast. 1811 Ld. Byron Hints from Horace 44 Another soars, inflated with bombast. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. xii. 165 Their eloquence is all bombast. b. transferred. ΚΠ 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 221 What might be called mental bombast, as distinguished from verbal. 1821 W. M. Craig Lect. Drawing iv. 213 I have insuperable objections to this sort of bombast in painting. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bombastadj. Forms: Also 1500s–1600s bumbast(e. Etymology: past participle of bombase v. to stuff; but in later use hardly separable from bombast n. used attributively.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbombast. †1. Stuffed, padded, puffed out. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > having specific parts > padding stuffed1467 bombast1575 bombasted1583 bummed1611 gamboised1821 1575 G. Gascoigne Wks. (1587) 157 Hys bombast hose wyth linings manifold. 1656 Disc. Auxiliary Beauty 44 A bumbast or bolstered garment. 2. figurative. Puffed, empty, inflated; over-elaborate. Of language: Turgid, grandiloquent, bombastic. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > inflated or bombastic fleshyc1369 windya1382 unmeasureda1425 puffing1566 embossed1578 puffed1587 bombasted1589 fustian1592 puffya1594 full-mouthed1594 orificial1594 gouty1595 swelling1597 mouth-filling1598 taffeta1598 bombast1601 tiptoe-strouting1602 turgidous1602 swollen1605 dropsieda1616 exsufflicatea1616 turgent1621 ampullous1622 tympanous1625 high-flown1632 tumorousa1637 blustered1638 tumid1648 bombastical1649 ranting1650 inflated1652 tuftaffetya1658 pompiona1670 bombastic1704 dropsical1721 thundering1725 turgid1725 exsuffolate1744 Lexiphanic1767 hi cockalorum1783 Ossianic1788 mouthing1814 mouthy1827 sophomoric1837 highfalutin1839 sophomorical1847 spread eagle1853 tumescent1882 Herodian1886 Ossianesque1889 Barnumesque1890 1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. iv. sig. H I do hate these bumbaste wits, That are puft vp with arrogant conceit. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. i. 13 A bumbast circumstance, Horribly stuft with Epithites of warre. View more context for this quotation 1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick 122 He scorns to be frightened at a Bombast word, or Fustian Term. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1802) VI. 134 (note) Forty bombast lines. 1834 Fraser's Mag. 10 435 A frothy, verbose, and bombast writer. 1842 S. R. Maitland Notes Foxe's Martyrs ii. 26. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020). bombastv. Etymology: < bombast n., which see for pronunciation: in the verb the accent is more frequently on the final syllable. archaic. †1. To stuff, pad, or fill out with cotton-wool, or the like. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > tailor or make clothes [verb (transitive)] > stuff or pad bombase1558 bombast1565 baste1577 1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare To Rdr. sig. ¶3 To coouer the smalnesse..of their bodies, [he] had bomebasted, and embossed out their coates. 1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas Epil. 82 [They] bumbast, bolster, frisle and perfume. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis xvi. 162 They bumbast their Doublets. 1820 W. Scott Abbot I. xv. 317 My stomach has no room for it; it is..too well bumbasted out with straw and buckram. 2. a. figurative and transferred. To stuff, swell out, inflate. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > exaggerate [verb (transitive)] flatter?c1225 engregec1386 enhancec1400 extol?1504 extend1509 aggravate1533 exagger1535 blowa1538 amplify1561 exasperate1561 bombast1566 aggerate1570 enlarge1592 rengrege1601 exaggerate1604 magnify1605 hyperbolize1609 to slobber over ——1761 bloat1896 over-heighten1904 overpitch1904 overblow1961 inflate1982 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > express copiously [verb (transitive)] > pad bombast1566 intraverse1607 word1646 pad1831 quad1876 1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Medea iv. f. 40 Her hawty breste bumbasted is wyth pryde. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 37 The first should haue his gut bumbasted with biefe. 1607 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois iii. 32 A great man..that by his greatnesse Bumbasts his priuate roofes, with publique riches. ?1624 T. Scott Vox Dei 68 A place and people that..bombasted their reputations with the winde of complement. 1633 T. Heywood Eng. Traveller Prol Not so much..As Song, Dance, Masque, to bumbaste out a Play. 1822 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 27 34 The want of incidents..he has endeavoured to supply by invention, and in bombasting the fable with machinery. b. To swell out, render grandiose (a speech or literary composition) with bombastic language. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > embellish [verb (transitive)] > make bombastic to emboss1564 bombast1573 starch1656 tumefy1677 1573 R. Scot Perfite Platf. of Hoppe Garden (1578) Epist. Not bumbasting the same with the figures and flowers of eloquence. 1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. i. iv. 10 Then striues he to bumbast his feeble lines With farre-fetcht phrase. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxv. 83 That doth..bumbast his labors with high swelling and heaven-disimbowelling wordes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1568adj.1575v.1565
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