b 3 o 1 m 3 b 3 a 1 s 1 t 1
7 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun pompous or pretentious talk or writing
originFrom Old French bombace (“cotton, cotton wadding”), from Late Latin bombax (“cotton”), a variant of bombyx (“silkworm”), from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux, “silkworm”), possibly related to Middle Persian pmbk' (“cotton”), from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to twist, wind”.
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