Lovers of language and etymology, your help please.
 

I need a word, I've been wracking my brain and I am not aware of a word to describe this:

To attempt to bestow legitimacy, gravitas or substance to a thing which is completely bereft of these properties by use of arcane or complicated language.

Is there such a word, if not can one be coined on Pelican?

Arrogance

Usually when people act like that I refer to them as pseudointellectualls.

The question interests me. I'll work on it.

Integrity?

The closest I can get is 'aggrandize' or 'ennoble', but neither I think really does the job.

the word you are looking for is "B**l S**t"

embiggen

You're fromulus...

Validate
Aggrandize
Legitimize

I was thinking about "to big it up", but its clumsy, and ofcourse a phrase. .

'Embiggen'. Elegant, concise.

Perfect.

How about gasconade, or hyperbolize.

Obfuscate (obfuscation)?

I had to look that one up - nice one SmileWavy

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-politics-religion/886071-giving-women-right-vote-what-difference-did-make-4.html#post8857981

First use of Nostatic's new word.

What a great word. That one is stored away.

I'd love to claim credit, but that goes to some writer on the Simpsons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNQb8oHZkeo

Urban Dictionary: Embiggen

I suppose that wasn't very cromulent of me. I should have clarified that from the get-go

Not even a real word....

How about "venerate"?

Right where I knew it would go...immediately to PARF to needle Doug. :rolleyes:

politicize

Pontifigitimate

As in to go on at length, especially in an inflated or empty manner? Bloviate works, no?

See PARF where bombastic bloviating into the wind in flatulent explosions of orotund pomposity and grandiloquence is commonplace.