BOMBASTIC.
A bombastic person is one who uses inflated and high-sounding language, but | the word really means cotton wadding. Centuries ago people wore padded or quilte'd clothing, as we may see in historical pictures of the Tudor period, and the favourite material for stuffing garments and making them inflated and important was this cotton wadding, the name of which was bombast, from the Latin bombax, cotton. By an amusing transfer of meaning a person who uses "great swelling words," as the liiblo calls them, in order to make himself appear. important, is said to be . bombastic; that is, he stuffs his language as men stuffed their clothes.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 228, 26 September 1929, Page 14
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107BOMBASTIC. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 228, 26 September 1929, Page 14
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