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blusterer

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blus·ter  (blstr)
v. blus·tered, blus·ter·ing, blus·ters
v.intr.
1. To blow in loud, violent gusts, as the wind during a storm.
2.
a. To speak in a loudly arrogant or bullying manner.
b. To brag or make loud, empty threats.
v.tr.
To force or bully with swaggering threats.
n.
1. A violent, gusty wind.
2. Turbulence or noisy confusion.
3. Loud, arrogant speech, often full of empty threats.

[Middle English blusteren, from Middle Low German blüsteren.]

bluster·er n.
bluster·y, bluster·ous adj.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.blustererblusterer - a person who causes trouble by speaking indiscreetly
bad hat, mischief-maker, trouble maker, troublemaker, troubler - someone who deliberately stirs up trouble
Translations
blusterer [ˈblʌstərəʳ] Nfanfarrón/ona m/f


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IT is a dangerous thing to see anything in the sphere of a vain blusterer, before the vain blusterer sees it himself.
But it is not the danger of the noble man to turn a good man, but lest he should become a blusterer, a scoffer, or a destroyer.
I thought him the queerest old Quaker I ever saw, especially as Peleg, his friend and old shipmate, seemed such a blusterer.
 
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