bloviate. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

bloviate

SYLLABICATION:	blo·vi·ate
PRONUNCIATION:	blv-t
INTRANSITIVE VERB:	Inflected forms: blo·vi·at·ed, blo·vi·at·ing, blo·vi·ates Slang To discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner: “the rural Babbitt who bloviates about ‘progress’ and ‘growth’” (George Rebeck, Utne Reader November/December 1991).
ETYMOLOGY:	Mock-Latinate formation, from blow¹.
OTHER FORMS:	blovi·ation —NOUN


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