Bluster
['blʌstə] or ['blʌstɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a violent gusty wind.
(noun.) noisy confusion and turbulence; 'he was awakened by the bluster of their preparations'.
(verb.) blow hard; be gusty, as of wind; 'A southeaster blustered onshore'; 'The flames blustered'.
Typist: Mabel--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. t.) To utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully.
(n.) Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness.
(n.) Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Roar (as the wind), make a loud noise.[2]. Vapor, swagger, bully, BOAST, vaunt, swell, domineer, gasconade, play the bully.[3]. Make a great ado, make much ado about nothing.
n. [1]. Boisterousness, noise, tumult, turbulence.[2]. Boasting, swaggering, bullying, blattering, BLATHERSKITE.[3]. Great ado, much ado about nothing.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Storm, rage, puff, insult, blow, swagger, fume, brag
ANT:[See BRAG]
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Definition
v.i. to make a noise like a blast of wind: to bully or swagger.—n. a blast or roaring as of the wind: bullying or boasting language: a storm of anger.—n. Blus′tering a noisy blowing as of a blast: swaggering: noisy pretension.—adj. stormy: tumultuous: boastful.—adv. Blus′teringly.—adjs. Blus′terous (Shak.) noisy: boastful; Blus′tery stormy: (Carlyle) swaggering.
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Examples
- My business was to declare myself a scoundrel, and whether I did it with a bow or a bluster was of little importance. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Yes, yes, bully and bluster as much as you like, he said sulkily; the difficulty about the money is not the only difficulty. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- That's just what I do mean, returned Trenor, his bluster sinking to sullenness under her look. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- His quiet insistence made Archer feel the clumsiness of his own bluster. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- But when I gave him every particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a life-preserver from the wall. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Here's Tom Gradgrind's daughter knows pretty well what it might have been, if you don't,' blustered Bounderby. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I don't see it at all,' blustered Wegg. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Legree blustered and swore, and threatened to break down the door; but apparently thought better of it, and walked uneasily into the sitting-room. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I think differently,' blustered Bounderby. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The light of high day surrounded me; not, indeed, a warm, summer light, but the leaden gloom of raw and blustering autumn. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It was five and a half o'clock now, and a raw, blustering morning. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- So sink the shadows of night, blustering, rainy; and all paths grow dark. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
Typist: Lottie