tympany

English

Coined based on Ancient Greek τύμπανον (túmpanon).

tympany (countable and uncountable, plural tympanies)

The sound made by beating a drum.
(medicine) Tympanites (distention of the abdomen).
Inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.
- 1682, John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe
  Thine's a tympany of sense.
- 1828, Thomas De Quincey, Elements of Rhetoric (published in Blackwood's Magazine)
  Dr. Johnson, for his triads and his antithetic balances, he taxes more than once with a plethoric and tautologic tympany of sentence

单词	tympany
释义	tympany English Etymology Coined based on Ancient Greek τύμπανον (túmpanon). Pronunciation IPA^(key): /ˈtɪmpəni/ Hyphenation: tym‧pa‧ny Homophones: timpani, tympani Noun tympany (countable and uncountable, plural tympanies) The sound made by beating a drum. (medicine) Tympanites (distention of the abdomen). Inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness. 1682, John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe Thine's a tympany of sense. 1828, Thomas De Quincey, Elements of Rhetoric (published in Blackwood's Magazine) Dr. Johnson, for his triads and his antithetic balances, he taxes more than once with a plethoric and tautologic tympany of sentence
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