Merriam-Webster's WOTD (Word Of The Day): Bloviate. Something that Trump Does Ad ​Nau​se​am

Nov 21, 2025 11:31 AM EST, Fri

Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for Nov 21 is “bloviate”:

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

Trump loves the sound of his droning voice so much that he bloviates about topics that he and Wile E. Coyote (of Road Runner fame) are experts in catapults. Who knew that steam catapults are better than electric catapults?

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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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