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blustering

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1. blustering - Noun

2. blustering - Adjective

3. blustering - Verb

5. blustering - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Bluster

Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous.

Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats. Anne Bradstreet

Far from New England's blustering shore, New England's worm her hulk shall bore, And sink her in the Indian seas, Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas. Henry David Thoreau

The wrathfull winter proching on apace, With blustering blasts had all ybarde the treene, And olde Saturnus, with his frosty face With chilling cold had pearst the tender greene. Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset

And raw in fields the rude militia swarms, Mouths without hands; maintain'd at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence; Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever but in times of need at hand. John Dryden

The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten, he wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head... The autumn wind is a Raider, pillaging just for fun. Steve Sabol

A blustering night, a fair day follows. Spanish Proverb

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