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Blather vs Bloviate - What's the difference?

blather | bloviate |

As verbs the difference between blather and bloviate

is that blather is to talk rapidly without making much sense while bloviate is to speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner.

As a noun blather

is nonsensical or foolish talk.

blather

English

Alternative forms

* blether

Verb

(en verb)
  • (pejorative) To talk rapidly without making much sense.

    • Derived terms

    * blatherer * blatherskate * blatherskite * blathery

    Noun

    (-)
  • (pejorative) nonsensical or foolish talk

    • Synonyms

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    * English reporting verbs

    bloviate

    English

    Verb

    (bloviat)
  • (US) To speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner.
  • * 1845 , Huron Reflector, Norwalk, Ohio, 14 Oct. 3/1:
  • *:Peter P. Low, Esq., will with open throat…bloviate about the farmers being taxed upon the full value of their farms, while bankers are released from taxation.

    • Usage notes

    Particularly used of politicians, bloviate has passed in and out of fashion over the centuries, falling out of fashion by end of 19th century, but was popularized in the early 1920s with reference to president

    Synonyms

    * See also .

    Derived terms

    * bloviation * bloviator

    Related terms

    * blowhard

    See also

    * windbag *

    References

    * Allan A. Metcalf (2004), Presidential voices: speaking styles from George Washington to George W. Bush, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, “Once More the Bloviator”, pp. 134–135, ISBN 978-0-618-44374-1

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    * (l) Fanciful 19th century American coinages