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bluster
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)
- Pompous, officious talk.
- A gust of wind.
- 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)
- To speak or protest loudly.
- 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.
- 1774, Edmund Burke, A Speech on American Taxation
- To blow in strong or sudden gusts.
Translations
Derived terms
Anagrams
- Butlers, Struble, brustle, bustler, butlers, subtler, turbels
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blurter
English
Etymology
blurt +? -er
Noun
blurter (plural blurters)
- One who blurts.
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