Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Slang To discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner: "the rural Babbitt who bloviates about 'progress' and 'growth'” ( George Rebeck).
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To orate pompously; -- used especially of politicians and news commentators.
WordNet 3.0
- v. orate verbosely and windily
Etymologies
- A macaronic of blow + Latinate -iate (Wiktionary)
- Mock-Latinate formation, from blow1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“He puts on no airs, doesn't "bloviate", and I give his late, dear wife credit for keeping him so grounded.”
“Although 'bloviate' is listed in slang dictionaries as far back as the 19th century, the term was popularized by President Warren G. Harding in the 1920s.”
“However, others like William Safire claim that 'bloviate' comes from combining the words 'blow-hard' and 'deviation.”
“But if we really want to get the economy back on track, we need a better-educated workforce, one that knows that the Space Race didn't bankrupt the Soviet Union, understands syntax, and doesn't just bloviate about bakeries.”
The Washington Post: ComPost: Sarah Palin on the 'Race to Space,' Sputnik and Spudnut
“Maybe Mr. Cooper can bloviate on the subject for us.”
“But here's the thing: Unlike the people who bloviate on cable news about their so-called conservative values, I'm actually willing to listen to Danny.”
The Huffington Post: Mark Blankenship: Is CBS' Blue Bloods Showing the Way to Our Political Future?
“You just happened to accidentally hit one of my favorite topics to bloviate on.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Public Opinion, Anti-Discrimination Law, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
“The far-right pundits can bloviate all they want with their big microphone & platform provided by FALSE NEWS! ... but the reality is that election outcome will prove that Beck, Hannity, O'reilly and Rush LimpFROG hateful & bigoted views are irrelevant and have no impact whatsoEVER ... except you're just a FALSE NEWS puppet who is helping them make more millions by boosting their ratings!!!!”
“If Obama doesn't directly address a specific issue, they ignore everything else he is doing and bloviate about how he's a bad president and hasn't done anythiing.”
“They also have an outsized media forum from which to bloviate and intimidate, despite all the harm they have wrought this past decade, not just to millions of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan and to the American troops who served their ends, but to the financial and moral integrity of their own country.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bloviate’.
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Familiar
Just a list of words
fulminate, unctuous, malediction, lumpenproletariat, descry, surfeit, sententious, supernumerary, unabashed, picayune, obliterate, decry and 122 more...
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phrontistery - b
List of words from phrontistery.info
babeldom, baccate, bacchanal, bacciferous, bacciform, baccivorous, bacillicide, backstay, bactericide, baculiform, baculine, baculum and 582 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2057 more...
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January 2012
bloviate, pastiche, apparat, facile, paroxysm, pique, bedfellow, pedigree, tutelage, protege, protégé, retroactive and 196 more...
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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 505 more...
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 569 more...
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Words Not Recognized by WordMole on B...
praxis, reprovingly, rewording, sudoku, gunnysack, limn, optionality, flightlist, fatwa, blunderbuss, khat, bloviate
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Old Fashioned
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Its a Stretch
pandiculation, persiflage, quixotic, abjure, non sequitur, ouevre, addlepated, shibboleth, bloviate, mundicidious, illaqueate, frigorific and 13 more...
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Favorite Words
Fun words that are interesting and arresting.
Ort, unctuous, panoply, defenestrate, palpable, ubiquitous, flagellate, serendipitous, epiphanic, constructivist, amuse bouche, sobriquet and 30 more...
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Wicked Cool Words
These words have been posted on my vocabulary tumblr, wickedcoolwords.tumblr.com!
miasma, libation, laconic, denigrating, deontic, accinge, liquescent, quagmire, exiguous, dirigible, lambasted, lambaste and 89 more...
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ecbrenner's list
flatline, luddism, apocalipstick, muttsucker, leviathan of fore..., flint, coryphaeus, donnybrook, bandwidth, bagpipe the mizen, cheesed off, asterism and 525 more...
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Need to Know!
elicit, educe, refute, cogency, churlish, martinet, veritable, polyglot, dissemble, histrionics, prevarication, verbiage and 166 more...
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The New Yorker
prejudice, ignominious, quintessence, disparity, vanguard, repudiated, eclectic, dredge, taxonomy, pugnacious, surreptitiously, pudgy and 113 more...
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disparaging
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bloviate.
Vallin SFAS Atlanta journalist Hollis Gillespie loves this word! Jul 29, 2011
VoraciousVerbivore Think "Blow"viate as in blowhard. As in full of hot air. Good memory aid. Jul 29, 2011
super-logos Like bloated obfuscation that obviates everything in its path. Aug 15, 2008
reesetee That's WeirdNet for you! Mar 25, 2008
ofravens That first definition is almost as amusing to me as the word itself. "Orate verbosely," indeed. Mar 25, 2008
artistx This is a cracker. Hard to use everyday though Apr 19, 2007
meeralee I can't believe I forgot this word for my Blanguage list. :-) Feb 26, 2007