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noun

Bluster n.

Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness. "To the winds they set Their corners, when with bluster to confound Sea, air, and shore."

Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language.

Synonyms: Noise; boisterousness; tumult; turbulence; confusion; boasting; swaggering; bullying.

verb

Bluster v. t. To utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully. "He bloweth and blustereth out... his abominable blasphemy." "As if therewith he meant to bluster all princes into a perfect obedience to his commands."

Bluster v. i. (past & past part. blustered; pres. part. blustering)

To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather. "And ever-threatening storms Of Chaos blustering round."

To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the bully; to storm; to rage. "Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants."

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Etymology of 'Bluster'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue • Captain Grose et al.

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— The Foolish Dictionary • Gideon Wurdz

... sublime Maupertuis; scientific lion of Paris, ever since his feat in the Polar regions, and the charming Narrative he gave of it. "What a feat, what a book!" exclaimed the Parisian cultivated circles, male and female, on that occasion; and Maupertuis, with plenty of bluster in him carefully suppressed, assents in a grandly modest way. His Portraits are in the Printshops ever since; one very singular Portrait, just coming out (at which there is some laughing): a coarse-featured, blusterous, ...

— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XI. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle

... Villiers had crouched on the ground, half terrified, while his wife towered over him, magnificent in her anger. At the end, however, he recovered himself a little, and began to bluster. ...

— Madame Midas • Fergus Hume

... easily frightened. He may seem very large, and appear very strong in his independence; he may bluster about his determination to carry out his plans despite Mr. This and Mr. That; but he is soon reduced to his just proportions. His fever heat falls suddenly down to zero, if not twenty degrees below. You may ...

— Talkers - With Illustrations • John Bate

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