Bluster: Definition and part of speech

Bluster

  1. n. Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language.
  2. v. i. To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.
  3. v. i. 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.
  4. v. t. To utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully.
  5. n. Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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