bombast vs gibberish

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. 

gibberish

noun
  • Speech or writing that is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless. 

  • Needlessly obscure or overly technical language. 

  • A language game, comparable to pig Latin, in which one inserts a nonsense syllable before the first vowel in each syllable of a word. 

adj
  • unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless 

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