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bloviate

orate verbosely and windily
Bill O'Reilly tells his audiance not to bloviate when sending in e-mails.
by Frank Masotti May 19, 2005
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bloviate

what Bill O'Reilly tells his viewers not to do in their emails. see pithy

what O'Reilly says is his job.
No bloviating. thats my job ----O'Reilly
by bryan October 3, 2004
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bloviate

Bloviating = a long winded pompous discourse from someone trying to make a point. A bloviator is someone who cannot express themselves in a pithy concise manner.
Most politicans are guilty of bloviating - as they tend to be pompous windbags. Listening to a politican bloviate over the issues tends to become very boring - thus turning off most voters.
by WET CARGO BOY April 17, 2006
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bloviate

Verb. A new Internet term that means:

1. to act, talk or write like a blowhard;

2. to talk like a Republican politician.

The word is an amalgam of "(to) blowhard" and "to obviate".
When Glenn Beck is not simply bloviating through any issue he fails to understand, he is issuing clear directives to his Tea Bagger fans to overthrow the government by force, if necessary.

Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach, bloviate.

CNN's Rick Sanchez thinks he has dicovered the word "bloviate", but he has absolutely no idea what it means. It's a rare example of a bloviator bloviating about "bloviate".
by baracine September 30, 2010
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bloviate

My best friend in High School and I made up this word back around 1972 or 1973. Our definition then was someone who expounded at great lengths, not knowing when to shut up.
A Bloviator to us was a person who when you asked him what time it was, he told you how to build a watch.
The preacher got wound up in the sermon last Sunday. He began to bloviate and went past the usual time to get out of church.
by Chuck E. H. April 7, 2008
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bloviating

me and Stella was out for a couple of drinks the other night. it ended with her bloviating me in the parking lot.
by jay_imok November 7, 2013
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Bloviating Blowhard

Amoral windbag who loves the sound of his own voice. His mouth is NOT connected to his brain.
Rush Limbaugh and Keith Olbermann are prime examples of Bloviating Blowhards. Limbaugh promotes Republican Big Government (socialism); Olbermann promotes Democrat Big Government (socialism). They pretend they have opposing viewpoints.
by EndTheFed September 27, 2009
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