Wednesday, March 25, 2009

B

bolster
Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old English belg bag
A long narrow pillow or cushion.
tr.v. bol·stered, bol·ster·ing, bol·sters
1. To support or prop up with or as if with a long narrow pillow or cushion.
2. To buoy up or hearten: Visitors bolstered the patient's morale.

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bombast
[Alteration of obsolete bombace, cotton padding, from Old French, from Medieval Latin bombax, bombac-, cotton; see bombazine

Grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing.



bombastic

high-sounding; high-flown; inflated; pretentious.

ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"




bucolic
[Latin b colicus, pastoral, from Greek boukolikos, from boukolos, cowherd : bous, cow; see gwou- in Indo-European roots + -kolos, herdsman; see kwel-1 in Indo-European roots.]
adj.
1. Of or characteristic of the countryside or its people; rustic. See Synonyms at rural.
2. Of or characteristic of shepherds or flocks; pastoral.
n.
1. A pastoral poem.
2. A farmer or shepherd; a rustic.








burgeon
[Middle English burgeonen, from Old French borjoner, from burjon, a bud, from Vulgar Latin *burri , burri n-, from Late Latin burra, a shaggy garment.]

1.
a. To put forth new buds, leaves, or greenery; sprout.
b. To begin to grow or blossom.



To grow and flourish.

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