[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bombast \bom"bast\ bo^m"b.ast or bu^m"b.ast; 277, n.
   of. bombace cotton, ll. bombax cotton, bombasium a doublet
   of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. see
   bombazine.
   1. originally, cotton, or cotton wool. obs.
      1913 webster

            a candle with a wick of bombast.      --lupton.
      1913 webster

   2. cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing
      for garments; stuffing; padding. obs.
      1913 webster

            how now, my sweet creature of bombast --shak.
      1913 webster

            doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of
            bombast at least.                     --stubbes.
      1913 webster

   3. fig.: high-sounding words; an inflated style; language
      above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
      1913 webster

            yet noisy bombast carefully avoid.    --dryden.
      1913 webster
see also:
bombazine 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bombast \bom"bast\, a.
   high-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent;
   bombastic.
   1913 webster

         he evades them with a bombast circumstance,
         horribly stuffed with epithets of war.   --shak.
   1913 webster

         nor a tall metaphor in bombast way.      --cowley.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bombast \bombast"\ bo^mb.ast" or bu^mb.ast", v. t.
   to swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. obs.
   1913 webster

         not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed.
                                                  --drayton.
   1913 webster bombastic

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

bombast
     n : pompous or pretentious talk or writing syn: fustian, rant,
          claptrap, blah
see also:
fustian rant claptrap blah 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

90 moby thesaurus words for "bombast":
   absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash,
   bibble-babble, blabber, blather, bluster, boast, boastfulness,
   boasting, bombastry, brag, braggadocio, braggartism, bragging,
   bravado, claptrap, conceit, double-talk, drivel, drool,
   fanfaronade, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flatulence, flummery,
   folderol, fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gasconade,
   gasconism, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook,
   grandiloquence, heroics, highfalutin, hocus-pocus, hot air, humbug,
   jabber, jactation, jactitation, jargon, lexiphanicism,
   magniloquence, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense,
   orotundity, pack of nonsense, palaver, prate, prattle, puffery,
   pyrotechnics, rant, rhapsody, rhetoric, rigamarole, rigmarole,
   rodomontade, rubbish, sesquipedality, show, side, skimble-skamble,
   stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, swagger, trash, trumpery,
   tumidity, turgidity, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vanity,
   vaporing, vaunt, vauntery, vaunting, waffling

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