tympany

tympany englanniksi

1. The sound made by beating a drum.

2. Tympanites (distention of the abdomen).

3. Inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.

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5. {{quote-journal|en|year=1828|author=Thomas De Quincey|title=Elements of Rhetoric|journal=Blackwood's Magazine