bluster vs bombast

bluster

noun
  • Pompous, officious talk. 

  • A gust of wind. 

  • Fitful noise and violence. 

verb
  • To act or speak in an unduly threatening manner. 

  • To blow in strong or sudden gusts. 

  • To speak or protest loudly. 

bombast

noun
  • High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking. 

adj
  • Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent. 

verb
  • To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner. 

  • To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad. 

How often have the words bluster and bombast occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )