Associations to the word «Tympany»

Wiktionary

TYMPANY, noun. The sound made by beating a drum.
TYMPANY, noun. (medicine)Tympanites (distention of the abdomen).
TYMPANY, noun. Inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley