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.
The act or art of singing.
A low price, especially one under the expected value; chiefly in for a song.
A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal.
A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
An object of derision; a laughing stock.
Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
The distinctive sound that a male bird utters to attract a mate or to protect his territory; contrasts with call; also, similar vocalisations made by female birds.
Any musical composition.