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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-1145/
- Published: 2023-03-19T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-01-17T17:50:48.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:34

The word for today is…

bombast (noun):

: pretentious inflated speech or writing

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bombast?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology :Bombast settled softly into English in the mid-late 16th century as a textile term used to refer to cotton or other soft fibrous material used as padding or stuffing (its ultimate source is likely Middle Persian pambak, meaning “cotton”), but within a decade it had extended from literal stuffing to figurative stuffing, referring to speech or writing that is padded with pretentious verbiage. The adjective bombastic, which followed bombast a century later, has been a favorite choice to describe blowhards, boasters, and cockalorums ever since.  
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