speech too pompous for an occasion; pretentious words.

Obsolete . cotton or other material used to stuff garments; padding.

Obsolete . bombastic.

noun

claptrap , fustian , grandiloquence , magniloquence , orotundity , rant , turgidity , altiloquence , balderdash , bluster , boasting , bombastry , braggadocio , cotton , exaggeration , gasconade , grandiosity , pad , padded , pomposity , rage , rave , rhapsody , rhetoric , rodomontade , stuff , stuffed , tumidity , tympany

adjective

boastful , bombastic , declamatory , fustian , grandiloquent , grandiose , inflated , magniloquent , pompous , rhetorical , stilted , tumescent , tumid , turgescent , turgid , vainglorious