† tympanousadj.
Obsolete.
Swollen as with a tympany; usually figurative inflated, puffed up; turgid, bombastic; hollow, empty, vain.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > swelling or inflation with pride > [adjective]
to-bollenc1175
bolledc1375
bolnedc1380
swollenc1386
blown1483
puffed?a1500
inflate?1504
bellieda1533
bladder-puffed1549
uppuffed1573
huffling1582
swellinga1586
upblown1590
tumorous1603
windy1603
windy-headed1603
huffed1605
flown1606
huff-pufft1608
puff-pasted1610
turgid1620
turgent1621
high-blown1623
tympanous1625
bladdered1633
tympaneda1634
tumoured1635
tympanied1637
enormous1641
over-leaven1648
flatulent1658
tympany-like1658
huffy1677
tumefied1677
blubbered1699
full-blown1699
bloated1731
tympanitical1772
inflated1785
pompholygous1855
overblown1864
forblown-
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [adjective]
idlec825
unnuteOE
bricklec1225
tooma1250
unnaita1250
vaina1300
waste1303
overvoida1382
voida1382
superfluec1384
daylessa1387
unbehovely1390
unprofitablea1398
unbehoveful1429
wastefulc1450
idleful1483
fruster1488
vainful1509
frustrate?a1513
superfluousa1533
addle1534
lost1535
fittle1552
futilea1575
nugatory1605
futilous1607
shiftless1613
tympanous1625
emptya1628
frustraneousa1643
pointless1673
futilitous1765
otiose1795
stultificatory1931
the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [adjective] > distending > swelling > swollen
bollen?c1225
bolghena1250
swollenc1325
rank?a1400
forbolned1413
puff1472
voustyc1480
knule?a1513
puffed1536
boldenc1540
tumorous1547
bladder-like1549
hoven1558
forswollen1565
uppuffed1573
bolled1578
engrossed1578
heaved1578
puffy1598
swelleda1616
bloughty1620
inflate1620
tympanous1625
tumid1626
tumoured1635
tumefied1651
bloated1664
pluff1673
inflated1744
balloon-like?1784
bladdery1785
ballooned1820
bepuffeda1849
utriculate1860
pobby1888
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > inflated or bombastic
fleshyc1369
windya1382
unmeasureda1425
puffing1566
embossed1578
puffed1587
bombasted1589
fustian1592
puffya1594
full-mouthed1594
orificial1594
gouty1595
swelling1597
mouth-filling1598
taffeta1598
bombast1601
tiptoe-strouting1602
turgidous1602
swollen1605
dropsieda1616
exsufflicatea1616
turgent1621
ampullous1622
tympanous1625
high-flown1632
tumorousa1637
blustered1638
tumid1648
bombastical1649
ranting1650
inflated1652
tuftaffetya1658
pompiona1670
bombastic1704
dropsical1721
thundering1725
turgid1725
exsuffolate1744
Lexiphanic1767
hi cockalorum1783
Ossianic1788
mouthing1814
mouthy1827
sophomoric1837
highfalutin1839
sophomorical1847
spread eagle1853
tumescent1882
Herodian1886
Ossianesque1889
Barnumesque1890
1625 T. Middleton Game at Chæss ii. i His proud tympanous master, swell'd with state-wind.
1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells iv. 208 A Puny shall assume the name of Poet; And in a Tympanous and Thrasonicke stile [etc.].
1648 E. Symmons Vindic. King Charles (new ed.) To Rdr. sig. av Those new hopes being likely to prove tympanous.
1658 A. Cokayne Small Poems 164 Her tympanous belly.
1660 E. Waterhouse Disc. Arms & Armory 26 That tympanous humour that swells up..light minds.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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