Pompoms vs Pompous - What's the difference?
pompoms | pompous |
Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.
* 1848, , Bantam Classics (1997), 16:
As a noun pompoms
is plural of lang=en.As an adjective pompous is
affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.pompous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "Not that the parting speech caused Amelia to philosophise, or that it armed her in any way with a calmness, the result of argument; but it was intolerably dull, pompous , and tedious; and having the fear of her schoolmistress greatly before her eyes, Miss Sedley did not venture, in her presence, to give way to any ebullitions of private grief."
