bombinator

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who speaks or makes noise to no effect, as a flattering toady or empty orator. literary
    — 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 bombinators.
  2. Ellipsis of bombinator toad. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
    — Schiff adduces experiments on bombinators and toads[.]

词形变化

bombinators plural

词源

From bombinate + -or. Frog sense, New Latin (genus name), agent noun form of Medieval Latin bombināre, from Late Latin bombitare (“to buzz or hum”).
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