bloviate

夸夸其谈

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day

2025-11-21

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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for November 21, 2025 is: bloviate • BLOH-vee-ayt  • verb To bloviate is to speak or write in an arrogant tone and with more words than are necessary. // The podcaster tends to bloviate endlessly on topics about which he is not particularly knowledgeable. See the entry > Examples: "While other characters bloviate about their lives, Barbara is a much more internal character, her quietness making her seem all the more an outsider in her hometown." — Kristy Puchko, Mashable.com, 13 June 2025 Did you know? Warren G. Harding is often linked to the word bloviate, but to him the word wasn't insulting; it simply meant "to spend time idly." Harding used the word often in that "hanging around" sense, but during his tenure as the 29th U.S. President (1921-23), he became associated with the "verbose" sense of bloviate, as his speeches tended to be on the long-winded side. Although he is sometimes credited with having coined the word, it's more likely that Harding picked it up from local slang while hanging around with his boyhood buddies in Ohio in the late 1800s. The term likely comes from a combination of the word blow plus the suffix -ate.
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  • It's the word of the day for November 21st.

  • Today's word is bloviate, spelled B-L-O-V-I-A-T-E.

  • Bloviate is a verb.

  • To bloviate is to speak or write in an arrogant tone and with more words than are necessary.

  • Here's the word used in a sentence from Mashable.com by Christie Puchko.

  • While other characters bloviate about their lives, Barbara is a much more internal character,

  • her quietness making her seem all the more an outsider in her hometown.

  • Warren G.

  • Harding is often linked to the word bloviate, but to him, it isn't insulting.

  • It's simply meant to spend time idly.

  • Harding used the word often in that hanging-around sense, but during his tenure as the 29th U.S.

  • President from 1921 to 1923, he became associated with the verbose sense of bloviate,

  • as his speeches tended to be on the long-winded side.

  • Although he is sometimes credited with having coined the word,

  • it's more likely that Harding picked it up from local slang

  • while hanging around with his boyhood buddies in Ohio in the late 1800s.

  • The term likely comes from a combination of the word blow plus the suffix A-T-E.

  • With your Word of the Day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.