Bombast /(bŏm"bȧst [or] bŭm"bȧst; 277)/

Bom·bast

Bombast

n.
  1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [Obs.]
    A candle with a wick of bombast.
    — Lupton.
  2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. [Obs.]
    How now, my sweet creature of bombast!
    Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of bombast at least.
    — Stubbes.
  3. Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
    Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid.

Bombast

a.
  1. High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
    [He] evades them with a bombast circumstance, Horribly stuffed with epithets of war.
    Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way.
    — Cowley.

Bombast

v. t.
  1. To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [Obs.]
    Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed.