Thesaurus: bluster

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1. v. i. To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.
2. 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.
3. v. t. To utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully.
4. n. Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness.
5. n. Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language.
6. n. noisy confusion and turbulence
7. n. a swaggering show of courage
8. n. a violent gusty wind
9. n. vain and empty boasting
10. v. blow hard; be gusty, as of wind
11. v. show off
12. v. act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner