bloviate

Updated: July 21, 2025

As it was my conscience gave me no rest until I had induced neighbor Tiltman to extract the cartridges from the pistol, which service he did so cleverly that the carpenter knew nothing about it, and continued to bluster and bloviate like a dragoon on dress parade.

Eugene Field - The House: An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice