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bloviate

verb
/ˈbloʊ.viˌeɪt/

Etymology

1845, US, Ohio, from blow (“speak idly, boast”) + -i- + -ate, by analogy with deviate.

  1. derived from *bʰleh₁-✻
  2. inherited from *blēaną✻
  3. inherited from *blāan✻
  4. inherited from blāwan
  5. inherited from blowen
  6. formed as bloviate — “blow + -i- + -ate”

Definitions

  1. To speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner.

    • Peter P. Low, Esq., will with open throat…bloviate about the farmers being taxed upon the full value of their farms, while bankers are released from taxation.
    • His passion when bloviating was furious and terrible to look upon; but there was nothing to it more than sound and pretense.
    • “The cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me,” he said on “This Week,” the ABC News program.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA