bom-bast
noun :: Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding.
noun :: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion.
adj. :: High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning.
“Ordinarily I am not given to long speeches, nor ever before had I descended to bombast, but I had guessed at the keynote which would strike an answering chord in the breasts of the green Martians, nor was I wrong, for my harangue evidently deeply impressed them, and their attitude toward me thereafter was still further respectful.” — Burroughs, Edgar Rice
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