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Blustering   /blˈəstərɪŋ/   Listen
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)  
1.
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."
2.
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.  
1.
Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous. "A tempest and a blustering day."
2.
Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous. "A blustering fellow."






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"Blustering" Quotes from Famous Books



... Cavendish in a chair, and she was borne close to us through the throng and was looking forth with the tears running over her old cheeks, and extending her hands as if in blessing, and she never after made any opposition to our union. Then came blustering up Parson Downs and Ralph Drake, who afterward wedded Cicely Hyde, and the two Barrys who had braved leaving hiding, and the two black wenches who dwelt with them, one with a great white bandage swathing her head, and Sir Humphrey Hyde, who had just been released, and who, ...
— The Heart's Highway - A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeeth Century • Mary E. Wilkins

... flowered cushion of the big armchair, gazing into the flames. In the next room she could hear vague sounds of Alan's preparations, feet going to and fro, a door opening and closing, a pair of heavy boots dropped upon the floor. The night was dark outside, with a blustering wind and occasional flurries of snow that struck sharply ...
— The Windy Hill • Cornelia Meigs

... along with him. Mr. Story thinks of buying this villa: I do not know but I might be tempted to buy it myself if Siena were a practicable residence for the entire year; but the winter here, with the bleak mountain-winds of a hundred miles round about blustering against it, must be ...
— Passages From the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... vagoroso, -a wandering, errant. vaguedad f. vagueness; con —— vaguely, uncertainly. valenta f. valor, courage. valer be worth, help, avail; ms vale it is better. valeroso, -a valiant, brave. valiente adj. valiant, brave, arrogant, blustering. valor m. valor, courage, strength, force, might, amount, value. valle m. vale. vano, -a vain, idle, useless, presumptuous; en —— in vain, useless. vapor m. vapor, mist, fumes. vaporoso, -a ethereal, airy, shadowy, misty. varn m. man. varonil ...
— El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections • George Tyler Northup

... full passenger list a'ready, Captain?" demanded a blustering, heavy-set man with beetling eyebrows, as he pushed himself angrily through the crowding men ...
— A Man of Two Countries • Alice Harriman


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