bombinateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɒmbɪneɪt/

動詞

bombinate (三人称単数 現在形 bombinates, 現在分詞 bombinating, 過去形および過去分詞形 bombinated)

1. to buzz or hum; to speak idly, vacuously, or to little effect.
   • 1941, H.G. Wells, You Can't be Too Careful: A Sample of Life 1901-1951, London: Secker & Warburg, page 284:

     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.

   • 1973, HMS Surprise:

     So full a ship, so close-packed a world, moving urgently along, surrounded by its own vacuum; each man bombinating in his own, no doubt.

派生語

• bombination