noun

1. Cotton, or cotton wool.

2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing, padding.

3. High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.

Synonyms: fustian, aureation, bombard phrase, fustian, grandiloquence, purple prose

verb

1. To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.

2. To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.

adjective

1. Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.

Synonyms: aureate, highfalutin