Reverse Dictionary: POMPOUS

ADJECTIVES
16C.. ► MAGNIFIC pompous, grandiloquent → derogatory
1548 ► ROBUSTIOUS boisterous, noisy, strongly self-assertive, pompous
1560 ► GELLY worthy, pompous, well-conditioned → Sc.
1592 ► FUSTIAN ridiculously lofty in expression; bombastic, high-flown, inflated, pompous
17C.. ► MAGNIFICOUS magnificent, grand, pompous
1656 ► MAGNILOQUENT lofty or ambitious in expression, using pompous or bombastic language; using a stately manner of speaking or writing; also, talking big, boastful
1790 ► RUMGUMPTIOUS pompous; violent and obstinate in opinion; forward, rash, bold, quarrelsome, out of humour; boisterous → Eng. dial.
1797 ► FANDANGOUS showy, pompous → Eng. dial.
1803 ► CONSEQUENTIOUS conceited, proud; affectedly great; pompous → Amer.
1839 ► HIFALUTIN → HIGH-FALLOOTIN’ → HIGHFALUTEN → HIGHFALUTIN → HIGHFALUTING absurdly pompous or pretentious; stuck-up, snobbish→ colloq.
M19. ► HIKI-FALLOOTIN’ snobbish, pompous → sl., orig. US
1867 ► VENTOSE pompous, bragging, vaunting
1881 ► PAPPY → PAWPY of persons: conceited, stiff with self-esteem, stuck-up, officious, pompous, puffed up with pride; presumptuous → Sc.
1913 ► HIGH-FLYING pompous, pretentious → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1923 ► ALL GAS AND GAITERS pompous but empty talk → sl.
1972 ► HYBOLIC pompous, bombastic → Hawaii youth usage

ADVERBS
1900 ► HIGH FALUTIN snobbily, pompously → US sl.

NOUNS
1050 ► YELPING boasting; proud or pompous talk → obs.
1550 ► VENTOSITY pomposity, vanity, bombast
1656 ► FASTUOSITY haughtiness, ostentation, pomposity → obs.
1673 ► FAST arrogance, pompousness → obs.
M19. ► HIFALUTIN → HIGHFALUTIN snobbery, pomposity → Aust. sl.
1887 ► LARGENESS lofty bearing, pomposity
1913 ► PAUGHTINESS arrogance, conceit, pomposity → Sc.
1920 ► ALL GAS AND GAITERS nonsense, rubbish, pomposity, bombast → sl.
1923 ► GAS AND GAITERS pompous but empty talk → sl.

NOUNS, PERSON
1510 ► JETTER a pompous man → sl.
1672 ► MAMAMOUCHI a pompous-sounding title; one who assumes such a title; a ridiculous pretender to elevated dignity; a buffoon
1816 ► BAG OF WIND a person who speaks or writes at length but says little of substance or value; a pompously verbose speaker; a boaster; also, a loud-mouthed but ineffectual person → colloq., derogatory
1825 ► BLAFLUM → BLAFUM → BLAWFLUM a pompous, empty person → Sc., chiefly applied to males
1833 ► BIG DOG a consequential pompous individual; an overbearing person who will allow no one to differ from his views → US sl.
1841 ► BIG DOG OF THE TANYARD an important or the most important person; a consequential, pompous individual → US sl.
1859 ► POD-KITE a puffed-up, conceited person, especially a pompous official → Eng. dial.
1880 ► PANJANDRUM a mock title for an imaginary or mysterious person of much power, or one of great pretensions; a pompous pretender; one who is self-important
1890 ► BIG WIG a pompous, conceited individual → sl. (Bk.)
20C.. ► OLD GOAT an elderly person disliked for being pompous, stingy, mean, stubborn, unsympathetic to younger people or the like → US colloq.
1913 ► STUFFED SHIRT a pompous person → sl., orig. US
1932 ► BIG DOING → BIG DOINGS a boaster, a braggart; a pompous person, a show-off, a bully → US sl.
1937 ► LORD MUCK a pompous, self-opinionated condescending man → sl.
1938 ► GUTBUCKET a grossly fat person; a pompous person, usually corpulent; used derisively → Amer. sl.
1947 ► POCATELLO YARDMASTER a fraud; a blowhard, a boastful or pompous person → Amer. dial.
1957 ► LADY MUCK a pompous, self-opinionated condescending woman → sl.
1994 ► CACIQUE a slightly pompous person (Bk.)
L20.. ► PISS-ARTIST a pretentious and usually pompous poseur who is incompetent, but full of promises → colloq.

VERBS
1594 ► BESTRUT to strut or walk pompously over
1723 ► SPEECHIFY to make a pompous speech, or talk as if one were doing this → sl.
1815 ► SCANCE to make a great show in conversation; to talk in a pompous or affected manner, to exaggerate, to embellish a story to the limits of credibility for the sake of effect → Sc.
1847 ► BLOVIATE to talk aimlessly and boastingly; to speak arrogantly or pompously; to be verbose; to wander from the subject → Amer.