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Originally Posted by Pepper
From Encarta:
blo·vi·ate [ blo vee àyt ] (past and past participle blo·vi·at·ed, present participle blo·vi·at·ing, 3rd person present singular blo·vi·ates)
intransitive verb
Definition:
speak bombastically: to speak at length in a pompous self-aggrandizing way ( slang )
[Mid-19th century. Mock Latin alteration of blow]
blo·vi·a·tion [ blo vee áysh'n ] noun
A favorite term of Bill O'Reilly, and just one of those words whose sound, as it rolls off your tongue, is fun. 
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Well thanks maam fer providin the meanun of that fancy wurd. I wuz tryn to figur it out my self and I guessing I'm done purtty gud, all things considerin. I thought Blo, hmmm, as in to blow hard or spew out a lot of gas. V as in sumthin shaped like a V or crack, like mebbe a plumber person might show when bendin over. Ate as in sumthing you eated earlier in the day, this might be wherein the gas comes frum. So to bloviate is what a bloviater does and a bloviater is a blow hard who talks out of his a.., hmmm, "crack". Then I seen it wuz "bombastically" whichin I figured meant to drop a bomb, so I new I wuz on the right path. How'd I do ?
ps - NOTE: No apostrophes were mangled during the writtin of this here post !