Definition of bluster
blustered;
blustering
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\ˈblə-st(ə-)riŋ\
intransitive verb
1
:to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats
- brags and blusters but rarely does what he says he'll do
2 a
:to blow in stormy noisy gusts
- a cold, blustering wind
b
:to be windy and boisterous
- … when autumn blusters and the orchard rocks.
- —Robert Browning
transitive verb
1
:to utter with noisy self-assertiveness
- "I don't want to hear it!" he blustered.
2
:to drive or force by blustering
- … trying to bluster us into the belief that they are much better than they look.
- —F. A. Swinnerton
