different between bluster vs riot

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.

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Derived terms

Anagrams

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English riot (“debauched living, dissipation”), from Old French riote (“debate”), from rioter (“to quarrel”), perhaps related to riboter or from Latin rugio (“I roar”).

Compare French riotte and Occitan riòta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?.?t/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /??a?.?t/
• Rhymes: -a??t
• Homophone: ryot

Noun

riot (countable and uncountable, plural riots)

1. Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.
2. The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.
3. (figuratively) A wide and unconstrained variety.
4. (colloquial, uncountable) A humorous or entertaining event or person.
5. (obsolete) Excessive and expensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.

Derived terms

• rioter
• riotous
• run riot
• riot boosting

Translations

Verb

riot (third-person singular simple present riots, present participle rioting, simple past and past participle rioted)

1. (intransitive) To create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition.

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of feasting, luxury, etc.
3. (transitive) To cause to riot; to throw into a tumult.
4. (transitive) To annoy.

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Further reading

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

• Tori, Troi, roti, tiro, tori, trio