High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.
Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.
To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.
To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.
Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding, especially if trivial.
Nonsense.
A type of hard sweet (candy), usually peppermint flavoured with a striped pattern.
A hoax, jest, or prank.
A fight.
A fraud or sham; (uncountable) hypocrisy.
A false arrest on trumped-up charges.
The piglet of the wild boar.
A cheat, fraudster, or hypocrite.
To fight; to act tough.
To play a trick on someone, to cheat, to swindle, to deceive.
Balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish!