different between bluster vs blaster

English

Etymology

From Middle English blusteren (“to wander about aimlessly”); however, apparently picking up the modern sense from Middle Low German blüstren (“to blow violently”; compare later Low German blustern, blistern). Related to blow, blast. Compare also Saterland Frisian bloasje (“to blow”), bruusje (“to bluster”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?bl?s.t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?bl?s.t?/
• (US)
• (General Australian)
• Rhymes: -?st?(r)

Noun

bluster (countable and uncountable, plural blusters)

1. Pompous, officious talk.
2. A gust of wind.
3. Fitful noise and violence.

Synonyms

• (pompous talk): bombast

Translations

Verb

bluster (third-person singular simple present blusters, present participle blustering, simple past and past participle blustered)

1. To speak or protest loudly.

2. To act or speak in an unduly threatening manner.
   • 1774, Edmund Burke, A Speech on American Taxation

     Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants.

   • 1532, Thomas More, Confutation of Tyndale's Answer

     He bloweth and blustereth out […] his abominable blasphemy.

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

3. To blow in strong or sudden gusts.

Translations

Derived terms

Anagrams

• Butlers, Struble, brustle, bustler, butlers, subtler, turbels

English

Alternative forms

• (science fiction weapon): blastor

Etymology

blast +? -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bl??s.t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?blæs.t?/
• Rhymes: -??st?(r)

Noun

blaster (plural blasters)

1. Anything that, or anyone who blasts.

2. A device to detonate an explosive, often consisting of a box with a handle to be pressed down.
3. (science fiction) An unspecified powerful hand weapon, usually one that fires an energy pulse or beam.
4. (golf, slang) A sand wedge.
   • 1948, Henry Cotton, This Game of Golf (page 119)

     The "blaster" type of club has been blamed for doing its share in making golf courses look ridiculous, […]

   • 1962, Gary Player, Golf Secrets (page 61)

     The person who has a sand wedge - the blaster - for these shots has a distinct advantage.

Hypernyms

• (science fiction weapon): energy weapon, ray gun

Coordinate terms

• (science fiction weapon): death ray, phaser

Derived terms

• ghetto blaster

Anagrams

• Alberts, Bartels, Bartles, Stabler, Tablers, bralets, labrets, reblast, stabler, tablers