bombast

• n. 誇張されたスピーチ
• adj.誇張された

ラテン語の bombyx、絹、絹綿から。自慢という意味はbombに由来するかもしれない。

bombast

bombast: [16] Bombast originally meant ‘cotton-wool’, especially as used for stuffing or padding clothes, upholstery, etc; hence, before the end of the 16th century, it had been transferred metaphorically to ‘pompous or turgid language’. The ultimate source of the word was Greek bómbux ‘silk, silkworm’, which came into English via Latin bombyx, bombax (source also of English bombazine [16]) and Old French bombace. The earliest English form was bombace, but it soon developed an additional final -t.
=> bombazine

bombast (n.)

1560s, "cotton padding," corrupted from earlier bombace (1550s), from Old French bombace "cotton, cotton wadding," from Late Latin bombacem, accusative of bombax "cotton, 'linteorum aut aliae quaevis quisquiliae,' " a corruption and transferred use of Latin bombyx "silk," from Greek bombyx "silk, silkworm" (which also came to mean "cotton" in Medieval Greek), from some oriental word, perhaps related to Iranian pambak (modern panba) or Armenian bambok, perhaps ultimately from a PIE root meaning "to twist, wind." From stuffing and padding for clothes or upholstery, meaning extended to "pompous, empty speech" (1580s).

Also from the same source are Swedish bomull, Danish bomuld "cotton," and, via Turkish forms, Modern Greek mpampaki, Rumanian bumbac, Serbo-Croatian pamuk. German baumwolle "cotton" is probably from the Latin word but altered by folk-etymology to look like "tree wool." Polish bawe?na, Lithuanian bovelna are partial translations from German.

1. There was no bombast or conceit in his speech.

彼のスピーチは誇張や自画自賛をしていない。

2.But Yasha realized that Wolsky 's bombast was unnecessary.

しかし、雅夏はウォルスキーが無中生的に吹聴していることを見た。

3.And even Watts，for all his bombast ，can be quite self-critical.

これにより、ワットは彼自身の誇張された言葉に対しても自己批判をした。

4.His speech was full of bombast .

彼の講演全編は誇張されている。

5.He also knows that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 's threat wipe Israel off the map is bombast .

イランのネジャド大統領がイスラエルを地図から抹消すると脅していることを知っているという説は、ほらを吹いているだけだ。