[Magdalen] The Donald.

[Roger Stokes]

On 26/07/2015 23:49, Sibyl Smirl wrote:
> On 7/26/15 5:07 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
>> I learned a new word today --- "bloviate".   This was used by an  
>> article
>> excerpted from the Des Moines, IA USA "Register".  the term was used  by
>> the paper to describe the campaign technique of Donald Trump, stumping
>> Iowa.  It means to speak or write verbosely and windily. Later,  the 
>> same
>> article refers to Trump as a "blowhard".  I guess they both mean 
>> about  the
>> same thing.
>
> My father used the term "blowhard" quite a bit.  He didn't seem to 
> refer so much to verbosity as to the man's manner, someone who 
> believed he was, and talked as if he were, much more important and 
> powerful than he actually was. 
I would agree with your father's use of the term, and in the political 
scene I would certainly apply it to Mr Trump.

Roger