Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A buzzing or droning sound; report; noise. Also bombulation.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A humming sound; a booming.
WordNet 3.0
- n. sound of rapid vibration
Examples
“A deep-toned booming note came then from the hills, commencing like the warning siren of a space liner approaching its berth and swelling to a bombilation of ear-shattering sound that set the steel of the _Nomad's_ hull vibrating and their very flesh and bones a-tingle.”
“Yet it was possible in still weather to hear the muted bombilation of the sleepless city and when the wind was in the north to count the hammer-strokes of the great bell of St. Paul's.”
“The dull reports of fog-signals had become a part of the metropolitan bombilation, but hitherto the choking mist had not secured”
“The pound of the horse's feet was lost in the titanic bombilation of the elements -- the incessant crash and rumble of thunder and the ever increasing roar of rushing waters.”
“When the bombilation became too fearful, Lovaina called out from her bed:”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bombilation’.
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via Weird and Wonderful Words
Catch-all for things culled from Weird and Wonderful Words, More Weird and Wonderful Words, and Totally Weird and Wonderful Words, by Erin McKean, et al.
aboulia, alexiteric, angletouch, dactylion, alveary, sparlire, glabella, philtrum, pallium, heart-spoon, hyperprosexia, paraprosexia and 438 more...
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Discordial
Annoying, loud, or awful sounds.
portamento, scroop, clangor, plangent, stentorian, hubbub, cacophony, burble, guggle, donder, sough, racket and 82 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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herotuesday's Words
butyraceous, thrasonical, turgid, ululate, irenic, punctilio, discombobulate, ecdysiast, formicate, favonian, agnate, erubescence and 614 more...
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The Repository
These are words which I had to add in order to comment. I don't really want them on my lists, so the repository will probably be cleaned out from time to time.
blandiose, plagiarist, bangstry, toonie, loonie, bombilation, bubulcitate, hoi-toider, quammish, fladget, mommuck, pizer and 3 more...
Tweets
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abraxaszugzwang a droning, humming, or buzzing Mar 3, 2007