bombast
suomi-englanti sanakirjabombast englannista suomeksi
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Substantiivi
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bombast englanniksi
(synonyms)
(RQ:Dictionaire Oeconomique)
(quote-book)
Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing, padding.
(quote-book)|title=The Anatomie of Abuses: Contayning a Discouerie, or Briefe Summarie of such Notable Vices and Imperfections, as now Raigne in Many Christian Countreyes of the Worlde:(nb...)|edition=3rd|location=London|publisher=(...) Richard Iones,(nb...)|year=1585|section=folio 23, recto and verso|sectionurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=9PpiAAAAcAAJ&pg=PT59|oclc=837957584|passage=Certayne I am there was neuer any kinde of apparell euer inuented, that could more diſproportion the body of man, then theſe Dublettes with great bellies hanging downe beneath their Pudenda, (as I haue ſayd) & ſtuffed with foure, fiue, or ſixe pound of Bombaſt at the least: ...
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-1)
High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.
(RQ:Swift Tale of a Tub)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Tonson|Jacob and Richard Tonson(nb...)|year=1760|volume=I|section=canto I|pages=320–321|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=kYoiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA320|oclc=559918734|passage=And let burleſque in ballads be employ'd; / Yet noiſy bombaſt carefully avoid, / Nor think to raiſe, tho on of Pharsalus|Pharſalia's plain, "Millions of mourning mountains of the ſlain:" ...
(quote-book)|date=16 January 1899|page=30|pageurl=https://archive.org/stream/conquestuniteds00sumngoogpage/n32/mode/1up/|oclc=5711584|passage=Upon a little serious examination, the off-hand disposal of an important question of policy, by the declaration that Americans can do anything, proves to be only a silly piece of bombast, and, upon a little reflection, we find that our hands are quite full at home of problems, by the solution of which the peace and happiness of the American people could be greatly increased.
(quote-web) put aside the bombast and bellicosity of a campaign that seemed to bleed into his presidency.
To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.
(quote-book)'
Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.
(RQ:Shakespeare Othello)
(quote-book)|edition=5th|location=London|publisher=(...) John Macock for (w),(nb...)|year=1678|section=stanza 7|page=3|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=bjQVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA3|oclc=960099431|passage='Tis not ſuch ''Lines'' as almoſt crack the ''Stage''. / When ''Bajazet'' begins to rage. / Nor a tall ''Met'phor'' in the ''Bombaſt way'', / Nor the dry chips of ſhort-lung'd ''the Younger|Seneca''.
bombast (q)