bloviate

Definition

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

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

• "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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