| bombast | (บอม'แบสทฺ) n. คำพูดโว, คนโว, นุ่นยัด, เครื่องรอง, Syn. boast | bombastic | (บอมแบส'ทิค, -เคิล) adj. ซึ่งคุยโว, ซึ่งคุยเขื่อง, Syn. pompous | bombastical | (บอมแบส'ทิค, -เคิล) adj. ซึ่งคุยโว, ซึ่งคุยเขื่อง, Syn. pompous |
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| bombast | (n) คำพูดรื่นหู, คำพูดโว, เครื่องรอง | bombastic | (adj) เป็นที่รื่นหู, ซึ่งคุยเขื่อง, ซึ่งคุยโว |
| bombast | สำนวนฟุ้งเฟื่อง [วรรณกรรม ๖ มี.ค. ๒๕๔๕] |
| โวหาร | [wōhān] (n) EN: eloquence ; words ; diction ; rhetoric ; oratory ; language ; literary style ; claptrap ; bombast FR: éloquence [ f ] ; style [ m ] ; diction [ f ] (vx) |
| | | bombast | (n) pompous or pretentious talk or writing, Syn. rant, fustian, blah, claptrap | bombastic | (adj) ostentatiously lofty in style, Syn. declamatory, turgid, large, orotund, tumid | bombastically | (adv) in a grandiose manner, Syn. grandiosely |
| Bombast | n. [ OF. bombace cotton, LL. bombax cotton, bombasium a doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See Bombazine. ] 1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] A candle with a wick of bombast. Lupton. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] How now, my sweet creature of bombast! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of bombast at least. Stubbes. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian. [ 1913 Webster ] Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ] | Bombast | a. High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic. [ 1913 Webster ] [ He ] evades them with a bombast circumstance, Horribly stuffed with epithets of war. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way. Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ] | Bombast | v. t. To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ] | Bombastical | { } a. Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated. -- Bom*bas"tic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster] A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. Burke. [1913 Webster] Syn. -- Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent. [1913 Webster] Variants: Bombastic | Bombastry | n. Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian. [ 1913 Webster ] Bombastry and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest of all. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ] |
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