英语词汇bombast的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

bombast. Bombast was cotton used as a padding or stuffing for clothes in days past, the word deriving from the word bom- byx, for “silkworm or silk,” which was applied to cotton as well. Just as stuffing or padding in clothing was called bombast so was padded, stuffed, inflated, grandiose speech—this figura- tive use of bombast being first recorded in 1589, not long after the word was first used in its literal sense. Write off as enter- taining but untrue the old story that bombast for inflated speech on trivial subjects comes from the real name of the egotistical Swiss physician, alchemist, and writer Paracelsus (1493?–1541)—Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim.

词汇	bombast
词源	bombast. Bombast was cotton used as a padding or stuffing for clothes in days past, the word deriving from the word bom- byx, for “silkworm or silk,” which was applied to cotton as well. Just as stuffing or padding in clothing was called bombast so was padded, stuffed, inflated, grandiose speech—this figura- tive use of bombast being first recorded in 1589, not long after the word was first used in its literal sense. Write off as enter- taining but untrue the old story that bombast for inflated speech on trivial subjects comes from the real name of the egotistical Swiss physician, alchemist, and writer Paracelsus (1493?–1541)—Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim.
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