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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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"Bluster" Quotes from Famous Books

... intrinsically. There is the same burly thick-necked strength of body as of soul;—built, in both cases, on what the old Marquis calls a fond gaillard. By nature, by course of breeding, indeed by nation, Mirabeau has much more of bluster; a noisy, forward, unresting man. But the characteristic of Mirabeau too is veracity and sense, power of true insight, superiority of vision. The thing that he says is worth remembering. It is a flash of insight into some object or other: so do both these ...

— Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History • Thomas Carlyle

... second and more gratuitous Crimea. But it was not only in Eastern Europe that his saving influence was felt. In Africa and India, and wherever British honor was involved, he was the resolute and unsparing enemy of that odious system of bluster and swagger and might against right, on which Lord Beaconsfield and his colleagues bestowed the tawdry ...

— The Grand Old Man • Richard B. Cook

... tongue to say that it was a good thing for him Dick was not there. But partly the sense that this would be unbecoming bluster, and partly the suffocating resentment of the fellow's impudence, limited his response to a formless gasp, and Bittridge went on: "But I'm glad to find you here, judge. I didn't know that you were in town. Family all well in New York?" ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... women who seem formed to manage their husbands; and we one day saw her take Okotook to task in a very masterly style, for having bartered away a good jacket for an old useless pistol, without powder or shot. He attempted at first to bluster in his turn, and with most women would probably have gained his point. But with Iligliuk this would not do; she saw at once the absurdity of his bargain, and insisted on his immediately cancelling it, which ...

— Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the • Sir William Edward Parry

... if their arms are only constituted proportionately to their throats, they must do good fighting. I should think nothing would stand before them. Daisy, they will certainly bear down all opposition. Are you afraid? Here is the Fourth, and Washington safe yet, for all the Southern bluster." ...

— Daisy in the Field • Elizabeth Wetherell

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