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>"Lip-less Wonder Will occasionally secretes the fluids of his blovia
sac upon the corpus of American letters and arts, and for this, he remains ... "
I would have interpreted the blovia sac therein as a gas bag, but that's based on what I know of "Wonder Will" and bloviate. [btw, the Will thus deflated is the pundit and talking head George Will.]
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a gas bag
Speaking of which, Chicagos sobriquet "The Windy City", acquired in the late 1800's, was not (as is commonly thought) as a meteorological description. The term was a reference to the city's distinctively windy local politicians.
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You guys can "bloviate" as hard as you like, but that's not the origin. 
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Okay, another random thought:
could it have something to do with an order of progression: antedilluvian ----> dilluvian ----> postdilluvian ---> blovian?
i can't imagine how the wind component to blovian would compare to the flood component to dilluvian, though. (Well, unless it's a WINDows thing... but that'd r-e-a-l-l-y be a stretch.)
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Speaking of which, Chicagos sobriquet "The Windy City", acquired in the late 1800's, was not (as is commonly thought) as a meteorological description. The term was a reference to the city's distinctively windy local politicians.Oh, and there was me blaming it all on the pizza ... 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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To CapK: RASPBERRY! 
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Blovian: Of or pertaining to Blovia, an Utlendic country bordering on Jisteria and presently allied with the Glorious Empire of Ludicrania. Its capital is the Free and Independent City of Ludicrania Falls.
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It ain't in the brick and mortar OED so it don't exist.
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Of or pertaining to the Popeye comic book character, Bluto, just as Jovian is of Jove.
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the British pronunciation of ploughshare
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Blovian vision; The inability to lay off a good thing while knowing that all good things end.
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