blus·ter

(blŭs′tər)

v. blus·tered, blus·ter·ing, blus·ters

v.intr.

1. To blow in loud, violent gusts, as the wind during a storm.

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.

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.]

blus′ter·er n.

blus′ter·y, blus′ter·ous adj.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

blusterer - a person who causes trouble by speaking indiscreetly

loudmouth

bad hat, mischief-maker, trouble maker, troublemaker, troubler - someone who deliberately stirs up trouble

Translations

blusterer

[ˈblʌstərəʳ] N → fanfarrón/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.

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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.

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I thought him the queerest old Quaker I ever saw, especially as Peleg, his friend and old shipmate, seemed such a blusterer. But I said nothing, only looking round me sharply.

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He began to reassure Aouda, telling her that blusterers were never to be feared, and begged Fix to be his second at the approaching duel, a request which the detective could not refuse.

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Such threats Vented in anger oft, are blusterers, An idle breath, forgot when sense returns.

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Open the street door, Judy; put these blusterers out!

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As Allardyce showed when he talked himself out of the England job in record time he is a blusterer. Moyes is not.

A season that started badly and went downhill from there ... THE AGENDA: A season of own goals: How Sunderland turned a difficult campaign into an impossible one A variety of problems came together to cause the Black Cats'relegation from the Premier League but most of them were of their own making, writes STUART RAYNER

When a bigoted blusterer tells you he intends to force members of a religious minority to register with the authoritiesmuch like those friends and family of Siegfried's who stayed behind were forced to do before their horizon grew darkerbelieve him.

The Alt-Right and the Jews

He's a deal-maker, blusterer and serial mind-changer.

Trump taking smart calculated risk with North Korea talks

Banks is an evasive blusterer caught selling a pig in a poke, the demons he unleashed including the naked racism of the infamous "Breaking Point" A-refugees poster unveiled on the morning Far Right terrorist Thomas Mair killed Labour MP Jo Cox.

Kevin Maguire: Continuing with Aaron Banks' Brexit now would be a bigger lunacy than ever; Either we the people take back control -- or a cock-up on top of a conspiracy will prove to be an expensive disaster, writes Kevin Maguire

Bet she's looking forward to a weekend playing perfect host to the gaffeprone blusterer.

Trip's right royal sair fecht for HM; SHE'S THE BIGGEST GOSSIP IN TOWN

If there is a touch of the blusterer in you at times, it might come out today.

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