bombast.
Cotton, or cotton wool.
Meaning & usage
Cotton, or cotton wool.
Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing, padding.
High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.
Where this word comes from
From Old French bombace (“cotton, cotton wadding”), from Late Latin bombax (“cotton”), a variant of bombyx (“silkworm”), from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux, “silkworm”), possibly related to Middle Persian pmbk' (“cotton”), from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to twist, wind”.
To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.
To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.
Where this word comes from
From Old French bombace (“cotton, cotton wadding”), from Late Latin bombax (“cotton”), a variant of bombyx (“silkworm”), from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux, “silkworm”), possibly related to Middle Persian pmbk' (“cotton”), from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to twist, wind”.
Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.
Where this word comes from
From Old French bombace (“cotton, cotton wadding”), from Late Latin bombax (“cotton”), a variant of bombyx (“silkworm”), from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux, “silkworm”), possibly related to Middle Persian pmbk' (“cotton”), from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to twist, wind”.
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