Did you know that Chicago is called "The Windy City" because of the bloviating habits of its politicians, and not the breeze off
the lake?
According to some polls, the bloviating Newt Gingrich is the new GOP front-runner. It won't last(37)
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bloviate
(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).
[動](自)一席ぶつ.
[Mock-Latinate formation, from BLOW1.]
bloviation blo'vi·a'tion n.
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