Definitions
Etymologies
- From Old French bobance. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Puddleglum,' they've said, ` you're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits.”
“We have had great good fortune in France, and it hath led to much bobance and camp-fire talk, but I have ever noticed that those who know the most have the least to say about it.”
“And by that she showed that the pomp and bobance of the world should be eschewed, and that she conformed her unto the Virgin Mary; and when she came home she gave to some poor women the clothes in which she went to church.”
“Ned with his head cloven, and it would be more fitting if you were saying aves for his soul, instead of all this bobance and boasting.”
“We have had enough bobance and boasting," said Hordle John, rising and throwing off his doublet.”
“France, and it hath led to much bobance and camp-fire talk, but I have ever noticed that those who know the most have the least to say about it.”
“C (84): "Lat not our alder foo [devil] make his bobance [boast]".”
“Here is poor Ned with his head cloven, and it would be more fitting if you were saying aves for his soul, instead of all this bobance and boasting.”
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Bob
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missanthropist Pride, boasting, presumption. Taken from Old French bobance, arrogance, pomp.
Sir James Murray, New English Dictionary, 1888
Jul 11, 2008