tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post2725494710428764779..comments2024-03-16T00:21:43.240+00:00Comments on Separated by a Common Language: bloviate and brunchlynneguisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10171345732985610861noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-90080437879210281702017-01-31T23:46:15.744+00:002017-01-31T23:46:15.744+00:00Quite so -- if you go out for breakfast, you'r...Quite so -- if you go out for breakfast, you're likely going to a "greasy spoon" or chain like Cora's or Dennys at breakfast time to eat bacon & eggs or pancakes or something. Brunch has connotations of fancier food (and is often served starting as large as 11am), often buffet style: plates heaped with smoked salmon, eggs benny, Belgian waffles & fruit. In some restaurants, there will be both breakfast and lunch items available.<br /><br />I would use the term brunch casually to mean that I ate a single meal of a late breakfast or early lunch on a weekend, but I would never invite someone over for brunch unless it was going to be fancier. <br /><br />CanE; in my 20sLauranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-15956732305418156062014-04-08T06:34:39.612+01:002014-04-08T06:34:39.612+01:00Massachusetts-
I'd never come across bloviate...Massachusetts-<br /><br />I'd never come across bloviate before, but based on the context provided I would have guessed its meaning and from there its origins. <br /><br />In hooking it into existing vocabulary I liken it to blowing smoke, though that often has a slight connotation of deception.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02138260302522477243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-20589415913640750052008-03-12T01:59:00.000+00:002008-03-12T01:59:00.000+00:00About 'brunch'... it is definitely a more formal a...About 'brunch'... it is definitely a more formal and social meal than plain breakfast with more sophisticated food. It should not be confused with 'second breakfast' which is enjoyed by hobbits, children, pregnant women, and others who are just plain hungry again later in the morning.flatlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14711270206823934186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-60787187022667576062007-10-02T13:55:00.000+01:002007-10-02T13:55:00.000+01:00Over here in Rightpondia, Flatlander, Joe Biden is...Over here in Rightpondia, Flatlander, Joe Biden is best known for plagiaris/zing Neil Kinnock. Perhaps interestingly (then again, perhaps not), Neil Kinnock was often known as "the Welsh windbag," no mean bloviator himself.<BR/><BR/>By the way, this post is also the first time I (ScE) have ever heard of the verb "to bloviate."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-20074297116680132272007-10-02T01:24:00.000+01:002007-10-02T01:24:00.000+01:00Most everyone here in the (U.S.) state of Delaware...Most everyone here in the (U.S.) state of Delaware knows that verb. It's what our senior senator is best known for. A Google search on "bloviating" and "Biden" turns up 24,000 hits.flatlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14711270206823934186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-57679739352615730732007-09-30T18:54:00.000+01:002007-09-30T18:54:00.000+01:00(AmE) I've seen bloviate in print, but, to my reco...(AmE) I've seen bloviate in print, but, to my recollection, have never used it myself. My short-hand definition of it is to act like a "blowhard", but I actually never bothered to look it up. Turned out to be more accurate that I would have imagined.Roger Owen Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05298172138307632062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-34399356106795079802007-09-30T12:16:00.000+01:002007-09-30T12:16:00.000+01:00Sorry! I forgot that my location does not show. My...Sorry! I forgot that my location does not show. My mother was brought up in the east end of London, although she would have claimed that they were too posh to be cockneys: her father was a self-employed wheelwright! When my parents married just before the war, they moved to suburban Essex.Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13478343480167882044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-16767668732988402182007-09-30T11:46:00.000+01:002007-09-30T11:46:00.000+01:00Don't forget to mention what dialect/country you'r...Don't forget to mention what dialect/country you're talking about, please!lynneguisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10171345732985610861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-27751388605957588012007-09-30T11:42:00.000+01:002007-09-30T11:42:00.000+01:00I remember my mother in the 1950’s using the word ...I remember my mother in the 1950’s using the word “brunch” to indicate a late breakfast combined with lunch. It was sometime before I realised it was not just one of her own made up-words. My wife still refers to “brunch”-usually for the meal on Sundays, which we have later than weekdays.Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13478343480167882044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-6673252157559976732007-09-30T11:28:00.000+01:002007-09-30T11:28:00.000+01:00Or the cholesterol/calorie fest that is the full E...Or the cholesterol/calorie fest that is the <A HREF="http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-a-traditional-full-english-breakfast" REL="nofollow">full English</A>'?lynneguisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10171345732985610861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-23859428495489925482007-09-30T06:05:00.000+01:002007-09-30T06:05:00.000+01:00I did wonder, when I first moved here, why the "co...I did wonder, when I first moved here, why the "coffee cake" from the supermarket didn't taste at all of coffee...<BR/><BR/>I'd certainly used the word "brunch" in the UK, but in the context of a breakfast that's so late it becomes lunch. It would never have occured to me, before moving to the US, to invite people round to share it.<BR/><BR/>Another thing I find odd from my British perspective is having what I'd consider to be cake (say banana bread or muffins) for breakfast. Somehow the idea seems like a terribly unhealthy start to the day. Which is completely illogical, as I have no problem with the idea of eating a Danish pastry or a pain chocolat for breakfast...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-46860994531623965752007-09-29T14:48:00.000+01:002007-09-29T14:48:00.000+01:00Strangely enough, I had just tried to use 'bloviat...Strangely enough, I had just tried to use 'bloviate' minutes before reading this post, and discovered that not only was it flagged as a misspelling on my computer (Oxford American), but it was absent from my Merriam-Webster (Ninth New Collegiate [I know, but I really like my old copy]) as well.<BR/><BR/>I have the Eleventh on my computer, and this did list 'bloviate,' and puts "circa 1879" as the date. Maybe it's the excuse I've been waiting for to update my Collegiate (I've been worried that newer editions will drop words as they are deemed obsolete, I never thought that they would reinstate words from the nineteenth century).jhmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15024302748759726815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-46542628116401971982007-09-29T02:15:00.000+01:002007-09-29T02:15:00.000+01:00Well, tea biscuits don't taste like tea. Never hea...Well, tea biscuits don't taste like tea. <BR/><BR/>Never heard bloviate before at all. (Am/E)<BR/><BR/>Spouse and I have coined a couple of portmanteaus, sproil for that food oil in a spray can. (Very useful.) And tunachicken for the chicken in a can, like tuna is frequently packed. We are trying to get them to catch on.Zhoenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03515663141425057088noreply@blogger.com