ombliferous

comparative more ombliferous · superlative most ombliferous

1. A nonsense word of vague negative connotation.

   “Don't be so ombliferous,” he said. My jaw dropped. The word was new.

   2016, Earle Looker, Arthur Hayne Mitchell, Colonel Roosevelt and the White House Gang

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   There was an old person of Crete, Whose toilet was far from complete, She dressed in a sack Spickle-speckled with black, That ombliferous old person of Crete.

   1846, Edward Lear, The Book of Nonsense

   The Corporation of Western Reserve University, with entire unanimity and ombliferous enthusiasm, made you to-day an LL. D. It is no small shakes of a hayseed College, I would have you know.

   1892, John Hay, Letters of John Hay and Extracts From Diary, volume II, published 1969, page 241