bluster Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun noisy confusion and turbulence
- he was awakened by the bluster of their preparations
noun a swaggering show of courage
bravado.
noun a violent gusty wind
noun vain and empty boasting
rhodomontade; rodomontade; braggadocio.
verb blow hard; be gusty, as of wind
- A southeaster blustered onshore
- The flames blustered
verb show off
blow; boast; gasconade; gas; brag; tout; swash; shoot a line; vaunt.
verb act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
swash; swagger.

Allied to blast.

imperfect & past participle Blustered present participle & verbal noun 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. Milton.
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. Burke.

To utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully.
He bloweth and blustereth out . . . his abominable blasphemy. Sir T. More.

As if therewith he meant to bluster all princes into a perfect obedience to his commands. Fuller.

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. Milton.
Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Noise; boisterousness; tumult; turbulence; confusion; boasting; swaggering; bullying.