单词 | tympanous |
释义 | † ˈtympanous, a. Obs. [f. tympan-um or tympan-y + -ous.] Swollen as with a tympany; usually fig. inflated, puffed up; turgid, bombastic; hollow, empty, vain.
1624Middleton Game at Chess ii. i, His proud tympanous master, swell'd with state-wind. 1635Heywood Hierarch. iv. 208 A Puny shall assume the name of Poet; And in a Tympanous and Thrasonicke stile [etc.]. 1648Symmons Vind. Chas. I p. ii, Those new hopes being likely to prove tympanous. 1660Waterhouse Arms & Arm. 26 That tympanous humour that swells up..light minds. 1669Cokaine Poems 164 Her tympanous belly. |

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