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Meaning of bombinator | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A person who speaks or makes noise to no effect, as a flattering toady or empty orator.
    literary
  2. Ellipsis of bombinator toad.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Examples

“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.”
“Therefore our apology to such bombinators, radicals, Utopians and Schoengeisten who might read this work expecting intellectual mayhem.”
“Alice Duer Miller, erect and fastidious, crowded her manor with clowns and bombinators.”
“[T]hese and a score of barroom bombinators and local-room moonshooters were around MacArthur like a Sorbonne faculty.”
“Schiff adduces experiments on bombinators and toads[.]”
“Tadpoles of the B. bombina are devoid of anicotto glanduare. Neither is it found in other bombinators (B. pachypus).”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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