BOMBASTER

PRONUNCIATION: (bom-BAS-tuhr)

MEANING: noun: One given to bluster and pretentiousness.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old French bombace (cotton padding), from Latin bombax (cotton), from Greek bombux (silk, silkworm). Earliest documented use: 1611.
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BOMB-EASTER - a clandestine plan to blow up all those big mysterious statues of buried heads

MOM, BASTER - acknowledging that Ma does the first coarse sewing on all the household sewing jobs

BOZ-BLASTER - someone with a dislike for the early works of Charles Dickens (and doesn't hesitate to say so!)