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单词 bombast
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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.
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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. 11v Scarlet, or white bumbast cloth.
1600 T. Dekker Shomakers Holiday sig. B4v 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. 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).]
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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. Cccv/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.
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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. 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.
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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.
2.
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.
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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).
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