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bombast
English
Etymology
From Old French bombace (“cotton, cotton wadding”), from Late Latin bombax (“cotton”), a variant of bombyx (“silkworm”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (bómbux, “silkworm”), possibly related to Middle Persian pmbk' (“cotton”), from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to twist, wind”.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b?mbæst/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b?mbæst/
- Hyphenation: bom?bast
Noun
bombast (countable and uncountable, plural bombasts)
- (archaic) Cotton, or cotton wool.
- Synonym: fustian
- (archaic) Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing, padding.
- (figuratively) High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.
- Synonyms: aureation, (obsolete) bombard phrase, fustian, grandiloquence, purple prose
Derived terms
- bombastic
- bombastical
- bombastically
- bombastry
Translations
Verb
bombast (third-person singular simple present bombasts, present participle bombasting, simple past and past participle bombasted)
- To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.
- To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.
Translations
Adjective
bombast (comparative more bombast, superlative most bombast)
- Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.
- Synonyms: aureate, highfalutin
References
Further reading
- fustian on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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palaver
English
Etymology
Originally nautical slang, from Portuguese palavra (“word”), from Late Latin parabola (“parable, speech”). The term's use (especially in Africa) mimics the evolution of the word moot. As such, for sense development, see moot. Doublet of parable, parole, and parabola.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /p??l??.v?(?)/
- Rhymes: -??v?(r)
Noun
palaver (countable and uncountable, plural palavers)
- (Africa) A village council meeting.
- Talk, especially unnecessary talk; chatter. [from 18th c.]
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter III:
- Frances pulled his hair heartily, and then went and seated herself on her husband’s knee, and there they were, like two babies, kissing and talking nonsense by the hour—foolish palaver that we should be ashamed of.
- 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima.
- These remarks were received with a differing demonstration: some of the company declaring that if the Dutchman cared to come round and smoke a pipe they would be glad to see him—perhaps he'd show where the thumbscrews had been put on; others being strongly of the opinion that they didn't want any more advice—they had already had advice enough to turn a donkey's stomach. What they wanted was to put forth their might without any more palaver; to do something, or for some one; to go out somewhere and smash something, on the spot—why not?—that very night.
- 1899, Stephen Crane, Active Service:
- Knowing full well the right time and the wrong time for a palaver of regret and disavowal, this battalion struggled in the desperation of despair.
- 1985, Justin Richards, Option Lock, p 229:
- Not for the first time, he reflected that it was not so much the speeches that strained the nerves as the palaver that went with them.
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter III:
- Talk intended to deceive. [from 19th c.]
- Fuss.
- What a palaver!
- A meeting at which there is much talk; a debate; a moot.
- 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling
- this country and epoch of parliaments and eloquent palavers
- 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling
- (informal) Disagreement.
- I have no palaver with him.
Synonyms
- (unnecessary talk): hot air, janglery; See also Thesaurus:chatter
- (fuss): ado, bother; See also Thesaurus:commotion
Descendants
- ? Danish: palaver
- ? Finnish: palaveri
- ? German: Palaver
- ? Hungarian: paláver
Translations
Verb
palaver (third-person singular simple present palavers, present participle palavering, simple past and past participle palavered)
- (intransitive) To discuss with much talk.
- Synonyms: jabber, rabbit, yak; see also Thesaurus:prattle
- 1860, Atlantic Monthly, vol. 5, no. 30 (April),
- “That,” he rejoined, “is a way we Americans have. We cannot stop to palaver. What would become of our manifest destiny?”
- (transitive) To flatter.
References
- James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Palaver”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VII (O–P), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 390, column 1.
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English palaver.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /palav?r/, [p?a?l?w??], [p?a?læ?w?]
Noun
palaver c (singular definite palaveren, plural indefinite palavere)
- palaver
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