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verb-intransitive. To blow in loud, violent gusts, as the wind during a storm.

verb-intransitive. To speak in a loudly arrogant or bullying manner.

verb-intransitive. To brag or make loud, empty threats.

v. To force or bully with swaggering threats.

n. A violent, gusty wind.

n. Turbulence or noisy confusion.

n. Loud, arrogant speech, often full of empty threats.

n. Pompous, officious talk.

n. A gust of wind.

n. Fitful noise and violence.

v. To speak or protest loudly.

v. To act or speak in an unduly threatening manner.

v. To blow in strong or sudden gusts.

verb-intransitive. To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.

verb-intransitive. 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. 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.

To roar and be tumultuous, as wind; blow boisterously: as, the storm blusters without.

To be loud, noisy, or swaggering; swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; utter loud empty menaces or protests.

[Only in ME.; perhaps a different word. Cf. LG. blustern, blistern, flutter in alarm.] To wander or run about aimlessly.

To compel or force by mere bluster.

To utter with bluster, or with noise and violence: generally with out or forth.

n. The noise of a storm or of violent wind; a blast; a gust.

n. A boisterous blast, or loud tumultuous noise.

n. Noisy but empty talk or menace; swagger; boisterous self-assertion.

n. Synonyms Turbulence, boasting, bragging, bullying.

n. a swaggering show of courage

n. a violent gusty wind

v. blow hard; be gusty, as of wind

n. vain and empty boasting

v. show off

v. act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner

n. noisy confusion and turbulence

"When he got older, when he turned into a fully mature male, I used the word bluster for lack of a better one."

blustered    blustering    blusters   

flash    ostentation    fanfare    gust    blast    blow    boast    self-praise    jactitation    boasting   

wind    blowy    to bluster down   

blustering    blusterer    blusterous    blustery   

storm    rage    bully    bullying    tumult    swaggering    boasting    turbulence    boisterousness    confusion   

Buster    Custer    adjuster    buster    cluster    duster    fluster    juster    luster    lustre   

bravado    bombast    braggadocio    swagger    sullenness    strut    arrogance    charlatanism    jeer    ostentation