Word of the Day - Bombinate

I have been learning some new and delightful words lately, and I don't remember the words (just the definitions). For example, there's a word for that delicious smell just before it rains and another for the word just after it rains;. There's also a french word that means "many hugs and kisses."

So I'm going to start putting my new words here! Today's new word is Bombinate.

Bombinate: v. to buzz or drone.  \ˈbäm-bə-ˌnāt\

Bombinate sounds like it should be the province of bombastic blowhards who bound up and bombard you with droning blather at parties-and it is. The word derives from the Greek wordbombos, a term that probably originated as an imitation of a deep, hollow sound (the kind we would likely refer to as "booming" nowadays). Latin speakers rendered the original Greek form as "bombus," and that root gave forth a veritable din of raucous English offspring, including not only "bombinate," but also "bomb," "bombard," and "bound" ("to leap"). However, Latin bombusis not a direct ancestor of "bombastic," which traces to "bombyx," a Greek name for the silkworm.