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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--bombast This week's theme: fabric words used metaphorically. bombast (BOM-bast) noun Pompous speech or writing. [From Old French bombace (cotton padding), from Latin bombax (cotton).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "The much-unloved advertising slogan proclaiming Scotland as 'The Best Small Country in the World' is ... seen to combine the worst of both bombast and cringe." Robbie Dinwoodie; Best Small Country in the World; The Herald (Glasgow, Scotland); Sep 10, 2007. X-Bonus A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)

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