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.
High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.
Exceptional in some degree.
A dull, heavy sound.
A beating.
A heavy defeat.