bloviator means one who habitually bloviates; a pompous, opinionated, typically voluble commentator. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
BLOVIATOR — [Noun] One who habitually speaks or writes at length in a pompous, opinionated, and typically empty manner. From the verb bloviate (to speak or write at length in a pompous or boastful manner) + the agent noun suffix -or. Unlike an orator, who marshals eloquence in service of substance, or a raconteur, who trades in engaging anecdote, the bloviator deals exclusively in the counterfeit currency of self-importance. He is the pundit whose modulated baritone fills a television screen with predicates that never find a subject, the colleague expanding a simple point into a thirty-minute sermon, the dinner guest pronouncing on geopolitics with the authority of a man who has read exactly one headline. He is the sound of confidence untethered from comprehension, a monument not to what is known, but to the sheer, undaunted volume of the voice that proclaims it.
noun
- One who habitually bloviates; a pompous, opinionated, typically voluble commentator.“When the bloviators attempt to disturb the proceedings of this Convention, they will be allowed to proceed without any further or more particular notice.”