bloviatingn.
/ˈbləʊvɪeɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbloʊviˌeɪdɪŋ/ U.S.
The action of bloviate v.
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1857 Chicago Mag. 15 June 364/2 Such a policy may be termed bloviating, or puffing, or some other like appellation.
1959 N.Y. Times Mag. 4 Oct. 13/2 The candidate..prepares for two or three months more of oratory, back-slapping, and what Warren G. Harding called ‘bloviating’.
2002 Nation 20 May 18/1 Debate consists more of partisan bickering and mundane bloviating than reasoned and informed discourse.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
bloviatingadj.
/ˈbləʊvɪeɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbloʊviˌeɪdɪŋ/ U.S.
Bombastic; long-winded.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > inflated or bombastic > using bombastic style
mouthy1589
fustian1600
mouthing1627
bombastic1727
ranting1771
bloviating1851
telegraphese1881
sophomoric1891
1851 N.-Y. Daily Tribune 28 Feb. 5/1 These stern resolves breathe much of the bloviating spirit of those world renowned military heroes,..they gasconaded much in the same vein.
1857 Coshocton (Ohio) Democrat 17 June 2/1 The Age makes the following bloviating announcement.
1865 J. W. Barber & H. Howe Loyal West in Times of Rebellion 606 Some of their officers were as dashing and bloviating as ever.
1945 T. A. Bailey W. Wilson & Great Betrayal (1947) xx. 325 His great gush of ‘bloviating’ words might, through some horrible mischance, mean something definite.
1970 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 57 192 The pundits and Sunday supplements have sustained the picture of [Warren G.] Harding the bumbling, bloviating, poker-playing misfit.
2003 Village Voice (N.Y.) 23–29 Apr. 57/4 Banville savors the opportunity to indulge the bloviating confessor's every rococo ejaculation and alliterative incantation.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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