Guest guest Posted October 4, 2006 Report Share Posted October 4, 2006 .... " the Bloviator " bloviate \BLOH-vee-ayt\, intransitive verb: To speak or write at length in a pompous or boastful manner. Anyone who has ever spent an idle morning watching the Washington talk shows has probably wondered: how did these people become entitled to earn six-figure salaries bloviating about the week's headlines? -- Robert Worth, " Quick! The Index! " , New York Times, June 3, 2001 After five years as president and thirty years as a political figure, this colossal oaf is still unable to discipline his urge to . . . bloviate. -- R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., American Spectator, December 19, 1997 We follow him minute by minute through a day in his office -- bloviating amiably with colleagues on the telephone, letting his secretary rewrite his clumsy letters and worrying about the possible hatred of his subordinates. -- John Brooks, " Fiction of the Managerial Class " , New York Times, April 8, 1984 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 © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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