pompous
pom·pous
adjective
1.
- “a grandiloquent and boastful manner”
- “overblown oratory”
- “a pompous speech”
- “pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey” Newsweek
Origin
From Middle English pompous, from Old French pompeux, pompos, from Late Latin pomposus, from Latin pompa (“pomp”), from Ancient Greek πομπή (pompḗ, “a sending, a solemn procession, pomp”), from πέμπω (pémpō, “to send”), equivalent to pomp + -ous. Doublet of pomposo.
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