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What does bloviate mean?

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Verb
  1. (US) To speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner.
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For years I have been using the verb bloviate in reference to speaking in an overblown self-importance.
And not having enough sense to quit when I'm behind, I now return to the episode to bravely bloviate on.
Folks at the Herald can bloviate all they want, but the truth is that a lot more people in this region buy the Globe than the Herald.
It is true, however, that most politicians, and those men who need to please and placate their electors, love to bloviate.
The speeches amazed listeners with their conversational tone and freedom from the expected pedantry, and nor did they bloviate, in the usual manner of the stump.
The bloviators still want to bloviate about Palin's speech, which electrified the convention-centre crowd, if not necessarily the public at large.

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