tympany

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Noun

tympany

1. The sound made by beating a drum.
2. (medicine) tympanites#English|Tympanites (distention of the abdomen).
3. Inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.
   • 1682, John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe

     Thine's a tympany of sense.

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