Definition of Bumbast. Meaning of Bumbast. Synonyms of Bumbast

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Definition of Bumbast

Bumbast
Bumbast Bum"bast See Bombast. [Obs.]

Meaning of Bumbast from wikipedia

- published under the pseudonym Don ****inando Puff-Indorst, Professor of Bumbast in the University of Crackow. John Ruskin named him as one of the three...
- Greene against his detractors, who "out-brave better pens with the swelling bumbast of a bragging blanke verse". Nashe was also much younger than Greene, unlike...
- form in 1722, ostensibly by one Don ****inando Puff-Indorst, Professor of Bumbast at the University of Crackow (a 'crack' being 18th-century slang for a...