Bloviate Definition

blōvē-āt
bloviated, bloviates, bloviating
verb
To speak at some length bombastically or rhetorically.
Webster's New World

(US) To speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner.

Wiktionary

Origin of Bloviate

  • 1845, US, Ohio, from blow (“speak idly, boast”) + -i- +‎ -ate, by analogy with deviate.

    From Wiktionary

  • Mock-Latinate formation, from blow

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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