Today's Word "bombast" bombast \BOM-bast\ (noun) - Pompous or pretentious speech or writing.
"Sain Flint decided not to run Amelia Lowell's bombast on the front page. Instead, he put it on page three." -- Richard S. Wheeler, 'Flint's Truth'
Bombast comes from Medieval French bombace, "cotton, hance padding," from Late Latin bombax, "