bloviate

[bloh-vee-eyt]

verb (used without object)

bloviated, bloviating 

1. to speak pompously.

Other Word Forms

• bloviation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of bloviate¹

1850–55, pseudo-Latin alteration of blow ² to boast; popularized by Warren G. Harding

Example Sentences

But starting with Ronald Reagan, the White House incumbent has shown up at the curved edifice on First Avenue to bloviate, shutting down Manhattan traffic for a full day, almost every September.

From Salon

For starters, undocumented immigration is not the threat to public safety or the economy that Trump like to bloviate about.

From Los Angeles Times

And it’s easy, as many quickly did, to write off this push to spruce up and fill up America’s most notorious prison-turned-national park as just bloviating or distraction.

From Los Angeles Times

Any that are foolish enough to obey might find that they've got a much more formidable opponent than the bloviating fascist in the White House: local parents.

From Salon

The "Call Her Daddy" conversation was not the contentious tête-à-tête the chattering class has come to expect after decades of cable news bloviating somehow came to represent meaningful political coverage.

From Salon

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