Bloviate is closely associated with U.S. President Warren G. Harding, who used it frequently and who was known for long, windy speeches. H.L. Mencken
said of him, "He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of
wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of
dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of
posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and
doodle. It is balder and dash."