blo·vi·ate (blō'vē-āt')
intr.v. Slang, -at·ed, -at·ing, -ates.
To discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner: "the rural Babbitt who bloviates about 'progress' and 'growth'" (George Rebeck).

[Mock-Latinate formation, from BLOW¹.]

bloviation blo'vi·a'tion n.

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