Lovers of language and etymology, your help please.

[stuartj]

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?

[JD159]

Originally Posted by stuartj

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.

[Jerome74911S]

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

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by stuartj

To attempt to bestow legitimacy, gravitas or substance to a thing which is completely bereft of these properties

Integrity?

[stuartj]

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

[Chuck Moreland]

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

[nostatic]

embiggen

You're fromulus...

[mreid]

Validate
Aggrandize
Legitimize

[stuartj]

Originally Posted by nostatic

embiggen

You're fromulus...

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

'Embiggen'. Elegant, concise.

Perfect.

[Jerome74911S]

How about gasconade, or hyperbolize.

[HardDrive]

Obfuscate (obfuscation)?

[nostatic]

Originally Posted by Jerome74911S

How about gasconade

I had to look that one up - nice one

[stuartj]

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.

[stuartj]

Originally Posted by Jerome74911S

How about gasconade, or hyperbolize.

What a great word. That one is stored away.

[nostatic]

Originally Posted by stuartj

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.

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

[winders]

Originally Posted by stuartj

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

'Embiggen'. Elegant, concise.

Perfect.

Not even a real word....

How about "venerate"?

[dafischer]

Originally Posted by stuartj

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.

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

[Tobra]

politicize

[Steve Carlton]

Pontifigitimate

[DARISC]

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.