Word of the Day: BLOVIATE


ETYMOLOGY
probably from blow (vb.) + -viate


EXAMPLE
“…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…”

From: Huron Reflector (Norwalk, Ohio)
October 14, 1845


PRONUNCIATION
BLOH-vee-ayt

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