Sekirov Dictionary

blustering

adjective 3
noun 2
forms 3

adjective3

•
Engaged in or involving the process of blustering, speaking or protesting loudly.
- Oratory is the huffing and blustering spoilt-child of a semi-barbarous age. — 1820
•
Pompous or arrogant in one's speech or bearing.
- A BLUSTERING FELLOW ! There 's a deadly bore, Placed in a good man's way, who only yearns For happiness and joy. — 1833
•
Very windy; (of wind) blowing very strongly, blustery.
- The southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes, And by his hollow whistling in the leaves Foretells a tempest and a blustering day. — 1597

noun2

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A noisy blowing, as of a blast of wind.
- He will soon disregard the roaring of your eloquence, as the bold sailor contemns the blustering of the winds […] — 1784
Swaggering; braggartry; noisy pretension.

forms

blusterings · more blustering · most blustering

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