One's brilliant vocabulary and a tendency to show it off [duplicate]
From Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
I like:
flowery, adj.
Abounding in flowers of speech; full of fine words and showy expressions, florid.
In use:
Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 81
Thinke you I can a resolution fetch From flowrie tendernesse?R. Bage Barham Downs I. 275
Certain flowery gentlemen, who told us, in very pretty language.
I like the term Sesquipedalian
1) having many syllables : long sesquipedalian terms
2) given to or characterized by the use of long words. A sesquipedalian television commentator
Erudite means well-learned, though it does not necessarily connote anything bombastic along with it.
If I was describing a person like this, I might say, "He was exceedingly erudite, and had no qualms about letting you know."
If I needed a phrase, I would say "bombastically erudite."