Blustering

Quick meaning: Blustering is a noun meaning A noisy blowing, as of a blast of wind.

Meaning

A noisy blowing, as of a blast of wind.

More Meanings

1. Swaggering; braggartry; noisy pretension.
2. Engaged in or involving the process of blustering, speaking or protesting loudly.
3. Pompous or arrogant in one's speech or bearing.
4. Very windy; (of wind) blowing very strongly, blustery.
5. present participle and gerund of bluster

Example Sentences

Oratory is the huffing and blustering spoilt-child of a semi-barbarous age.

For once Babbitt did not break out in blustering efforts to keep the party going.

He will soon disregard the roaring of your eloquence, as the bold sailor contemns the blustering of the winds […]

Quiet people too, for I think that about this time a sort of remorseful tenderness comes over the bullies and the nagsters, so that they go about gently and deprecatingly, hoping by one day's record sweetness to outface the year's blusterings.

Word Forms

• blusterings

Synonyms for blustering

Depending on context, synonyms include swaggering, braggartry, blusterous, blustery, gusty.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gusty, stormy, boreas, blore, blare, windbaggery.

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