Today's Word "bloviate"
Published in Vocabulary
bloviate \BLOH-vee-ayt\ (intransitive verb) - To speak or write at length in a pompous or boastful manner.
"It was one of the reasons that they had remained friends, despite Mather's inclinations to bloviate and exasperate." -- William Martin, 'Harvard Yard'
Bloviate is from blow + a mock-Latinate suffix -viate. Compare blowhard, "a boaster or braggart." Bloviation is the noun form; a bloviator is one who bloviates.
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