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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."

adjective

Blustering adj.

Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous. "A tempest and a blustering day."

Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous. "A blustering fellow."

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Etymology of 'Blustering'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Blustering" Quotes from Famous Books

... well did it become her. The other suit provided by the townsfolk was carried by one of the squires, that she might have change of garment if (as was but too probable) we should encounter drenching rains or blustering ...

— A Heroine of France • Evelyn Everett-Green

... of rain and blustering wind outside the fine ballroom—as the evening progressed—became unpleasantly hot. Dancing was in full swing and the orchestra had just struck up the first strains of that inspiriting new dance—the latest importation from Vienna—a dreamy waltz ...

— The Bronze Eagle - A Story of the Hundred Days • Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

... where all this points. I decide not to go to New York at present, notwithstanding all the attractions which you hold out to me. I don't feel like leaving home while this blustering March is roaring about the house. And from the mild winter we have had, I expect it to grow more like a lion ...

— Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. - Edited by his Daughter • Orville Dewey

... them in a war with France, but they now saw "where the real enemy was to be found." The Crown Prince, who was present, loudly applauded these Anglophobe outbursts. The German Press showed no less bitterness. Besides criticising the Chancellor's blustering beginning and huckstering conclusion, they manifested a resolve that Germany should always and everywhere succeed. The Berlin journal, the Post, went so far as to call the Kaiser ce poltron miserable for giving up South Morocco; and it was clear that a large section of the German people ardently ...

— The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) • John Holland Rose

... countries during Carnival time I have seen only one sensible masker; he was a man who had got himself up as a diver. It was in Antwerp. The rain was pouring down in torrents; a cheery, boisterous John Bull sort of an east wind was blustering through the streets at the rate of fifteen miles an hour. Pierrots, with frozen hands, were blowing blue noses. An elderly Cupid had borrowed an umbrella from a cafe and was waiting for a tram. A very little devil was crying with the cold, and wiping his eyes with the end of his own tail. ...

— Idle Ideas in 1905 • Jerome K. Jerome

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