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 Christy 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 Blotivate,

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.

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