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bloviate
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context US English) To speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
bloviate \blo"vi*ate\ (bl[=o]"v[i^]*[=a]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. bloviated (bl[=o]"v[i^]*[=a]*t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. bloviating (bl[=o]"v[i^]*[=a]*t[i^]ng).] To orate pompously; -- used especially of politicians and news commentators. --Frank Rich (N. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1857, American English, a Midwestern word for "to talk aimlessly and boastingly; to indulge in 'high falutin'," according to Farmer (1890), who seems to have been the only British lexicographer to notice it. He says it was based on blow (v.) on the model ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. orate verbosely and windily
Usage examples of bloviate.
On the other hand, Wilson could not bloviate, as the windbag Harding put it: speak impromptu with incoherent passion.
Weeks before the Iraq invasion, Senator Teddy Kennedy was bloviating about North Korea on CNN, saying, "Our principal focus and attention today ought to be what is happening in North Korea.
All the bloviating they've been doing has been pretty much for form's sake.