bombast vs sputter

bombast

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. 

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

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

sputter

verb
  • To speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly, with a spluttering sound, as in rage. 

  • To emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking. 

  • To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions. 

  • To coat the surface of an object by sputtering. 

  • To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering. 

noun
  • Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles. 

  • Confused and hasty speech. 

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