Crossword clues for bluster
bluster
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bluster \Blus"ter\, v. t. 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.
Bluster \Blus"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blustered; p. pr. & vb. n. Blustering.] [Allied to blast.]
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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.
Bluster \Blus"ter\, n.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from bluster (v.).
late 14c., from a Low German source, such as Middle Low German blüstren "to blow violently," East Frisian blüstern "to bluster" (see blow (v.1)). Related: Blustered; blustering.
Wiktionary
n. pompous, officious talk. vb. 1 To speak or protest loudly. 2 To act or speak in an unduly threatening manner. 3 To blow in strong or sudden gusts.
WordNet
n. noisy confusion and turbulence; "he was awakened by the bluster of their preparations"
a swaggering show of courage [syn: bravado]
a violent gusty wind
vain and empty boasting [syn: braggadocio, rodomontade, rhodomontade]
Wikipedia
Bluster may refer to:
- Bluster Kong, a character in Donkey Kong Country
- Phineas T. Bluster, a character in Howdy Doody
Usage examples of "bluster".
But despite all this fanfaronade of brutal bluster, and various movements that looked somewhat threatening, and this complete isolation for more than a week from the rest of the World, the city of Washington was not seized by the Rebels, after all.
Drapper had watched his friend grow from a gangly child to a strong man, hiding his soft heart behind bluster and gruffness, he also knew that Mathew had a soft spot in his heart for Mary and wondered if the two had argued.
If an orc or a goblin had gone into that cave, Bluster would have swatted it dead without a second thought.
Yet the drow and his panther were in there, day after day, setting their fires in the outer chamber while Bluster snored contentedly in the inner.
Montolio asked one day, a question that had nagged at him since the very first day he had learned that Drizzt and Bluster were sharing a cave.
Badgers were possibly the meanest creatures in the region, even above the orcs, quicker to anger than Bluster the bear and quite willing to take the offensive against any opponent, no matter how large.
Drizzt, you would rather tangle with Bluster than with a mother badger!
Most of the orcs in the field heard the newest danger before they saw it, for Bluster and his friends were a noisy lot.
Giles would bluster and bounce ponderously over the mess, but he would recover in time.
Or he could bluster afoot into his forbidden backyard and drag his canopy around the side of his house like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Neanderthal Man, a savage making off with shelter.
The bluster, the excuses, the accusations, the obscenities, the abuse.
Finding that this game of bluster would not succeed, and that his justly incensed host was about to ask for his arrest, he speedily came down from his high and virtuous mood, and compromised by pretending to offer all the money he had.
He turned to bluster, not finding it easy to put into words his doubts about such a mating.
On the other hand, there were Republicans in that Body who sturdily met the bluster of the Southern Fire-eaters with frank and courageous words expressing their full convictions on the situation and their belief that Concessions could not be made and that Compromises were mere waste paper.
Accordingly, Arnault and Torquil found themselves obliged to affect amusement at the ongoing byplay of sycophance and bluster between Robert de Sautre and Brian de Jay.