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bombast: pompous or pretentious talk or writing

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orate collapse: talk pompously

bragging collapse

pile it on collapse

heroics collapse: ostentatious or vainglorious or extravagant or melodramatic conduct; "heroics are for those epic films they make in Hollywood"

jactitation collapse: (pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness; (law) a false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law)

vainglory collapse

talk big collapse

flummery collapse: a bland custard or pudding especially of oatmeal

double talk collapse: deliberately unintelligible gibberish

rigmarole collapse: a long and complicated and confusing procedure; "all that academic rigmarole was a waste of time"; a set of confused and meaningless statements

rigamarole collapse

inflate collapse: fill with gas or air; "inflate a balloons"; exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated"; increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value; "inflate the currency"; cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit; "The war inflated the economy"

stuff and nonsense collapse

balderdash collapse: trivial nonsense

bravado collapse: a swaggering show of courage

fustian collapse: a strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap

brag collapse: an instance of boastful talk; "his brag is worse than his fight"; "whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade"

verbosity collapse

vaunt collapse: extravagant self-praise

boast collapse: speaking of yourself in superlatives; show off

fiddle faddle collapse

rodomontade collapse

hot air collapse: air that has been heated and tends to rise

fanfaronade collapse

gobbledygook collapse: incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists

vanity collapse: the quality of being valueless or futile; "he rejected the vanities of the world"

lay it on thick collapse

gibberish collapse: unintelligible talking

drool collapse: saliva spilling from the mouth

pontificate collapse: talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner; "The new professor always pontificates"; administer a pontifical office

trumpery collapse

twaddle collapse

claptrap collapse

prate collapse: idle or foolish and irrelevant talk

drivel collapse: a worthless message; let saliva drivel from the mouth; "The baby drooled"

blather collapse: foolish gibberish

jargon collapse: specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject

nonsense collapse: a message that seems to convey no meaning

jabber collapse: rapid and indistinct speech

hocus pocus collapse

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