bloviatev.

Brit.

/ˈbləʊvɪeɪt/, U.S.

/ˈbloʊviˌeɪt/

Origin: Probably formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blow v.¹, deviate v., abbreviate v.

Etymology: Probably < blow v.¹ + -viate (in e.g. deviate v., abbreviate v., etc.); compare -ate suffix³.

U.S.

intransitive. To talk at length, esp. using inflated or empty rhetoric; to speechify or ‘sound off’.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > speech-making > make a speech [verb (intransitive)] > harangue or declaim

spout1556

harangue1660

declaim1735

bloviate1845

to bust (a person's) balls1946

1845 Huron Reflector (Norwalk, Ohio) 14 Oct. Peter P. Low, Esq., will with open throat..bloviate about the farmers being taxed upon the full value of their farms, while bankers are released from taxation.

1887 Amer. Missionary Sept. 258 And this is the New South over which Grady bloviated so pathetically?

1923 N.Y. Times 23 Aug. 14/4 We all like to bloviate against ‘corporations’, and there is no tenderness in New Jersey for the Public Service Railway Company.

1957 Amer. Hist. Rev. 62 1014 Occasionally a candidate makes some great pronouncement or drastic shift of position in such an oration, but more often he merely talks, or, as Harding put it, ‘bloviates’, being concerned more with the political effect of his remarks than with their meaning.

2002 Mother Jones May–June 82/2 Chávez seems enamored of the sound of his own voice, and he has an unpopular habit of taking over Venezuela's TV and radio stations to bloviate about his reforms.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bloviate
释义	bloviatev. Brit. /ˈbləʊvɪeɪt/, U.S. /ˈbloʊviˌeɪt/ Origin: Probably formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blow v.¹, deviate v., abbreviate v. Etymology: Probably < blow v.¹ + -viate (in e.g. deviate v., abbreviate v., etc.); compare -ate suffix³. U.S. intransitive. To talk at length, esp. using inflated or empty rhetoric; to speechify or ‘sound off’. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > make a speech [verb (intransitive)] > harangue or declaim spout1556 harangue1660 declaim1735 bloviate1845 to bust (a person's) balls1946 1845 Huron Reflector (Norwalk, Ohio) 14 Oct. Peter P. Low, Esq., will with open throat..bloviate about the farmers being taxed upon the full value of their farms, while bankers are released from taxation. 1887 Amer. Missionary Sept. 258 And this is the New South over which Grady bloviated so pathetically? 1923 N.Y. Times 23 Aug. 14/4 We all like to bloviate against ‘corporations’, and there is no tenderness in New Jersey for the Public Service Railway Company. 1957 Amer. Hist. Rev. 62 1014 Occasionally a candidate makes some great pronouncement or drastic shift of position in such an oration, but more often he merely talks, or, as Harding put it, ‘bloviates’, being concerned more with the political effect of his remarks than with their meaning. 2002 Mother Jones May–June 82/2 Chávez seems enamored of the sound of his own voice, and he has an unpopular habit of taking over Venezuela's TV and radio stations to bloviate about his reforms. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1845
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