bombinator
bombinator noun: a person who speaks or makes noise to no effect, as a flattering toady or empty orator. Also the ellipsis of bombinator toad.
Noun
bombinator (plural bombinators)
- A person who speaks or makes noise to no effect, as a flattering toady or empty orator.
- None of this multitude of thinkers and their satellites brought his thoughts into really conclusive contact with the others. To do it would have been to discover much practical identity and so lose distinction. After their fashion, each bombinated abundantly with only the slightest regard to other...1941, H.G. Wells, You Can't be Too Careful: A Sample of Life 1901-1951, London: Secker & Warburg, page 284
- Therefore our apology to such bombinators, radicals, Utopians and Schoengeisten who might read this work expecting intellectual mayhem.1941, Bennett Cerf, Van H. Cartmell, editors, Sixteen Famous American Plays, Random House, page 140
Also used as
bombinator is also the ellipsis of bombinator toad.
Examples of bombinator in a sentence
- After their fashion, each bombinated abundantly with only the slightest regard to other bombinators.1941, H.G. Wells, You Can't be Too Careful: A Sample of Life 1901-1951, London: Secker & Warburg, page 284:
- Alice Duer Miller, erect and fastidious, crowded her manor with clowns and bombinators.1954, Ben Hecht, A Child of the Century, New Haven: Yale University Press, published 2020, page 395:
- [T]hese and a score of barroom bombinators and local-room moonshooters were around MacArthur like a Sorbonne faculty.1957, Ben Hecht, Charlie: The Improbable Life and Times of Charles MacArthur, Harper, page 62:
Forms of bombinator
| plural | bombinators |
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Origin of bombinator
From bombinate + -or. Frog sense, New Latin (genus name), agent noun form of Medieval Latin bombināre, from Late Latin bombitare (“to buzz or hum”).
Phrases with bombinator
Questions about bombinator
- What does bombinator mean?
- Bombinator means a person who speaks or makes noise to no effect, as a flattering toady or empty orator.
- How do you use bombinator in a sentence?
- After their fashion, each bombinated abundantly with only the slightest regard to other bombinators.
- What part of speech is bombinator?
- Bombinator is a noun.
- What is the plural of bombinator?
- The plural of bombinator is bombinators.
Words near bombinator in the dictionary
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