Brewer's: Bombastes Furioso

One who talks big and uses long sesquipedalian words; the ideal of bombast. He is the hero of a burlesque opera so called, by William Barnes Rhodes. (1790.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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