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."