High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.
To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.
To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.
Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.
Any confusing or meaningless speech; nonsense, gibberish.
Any object of superstition; religious words and/or actions which are seen as superstitious or fraudulent.
A deity or other supernatural being said to have been worshipped by certain West African peoples; an idol.