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outˈbluster, v.
[out- 16, 18 b, c.]
1. trans. To drive or do out of by blustering.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) II. 15 Those wives..can suffer themselves to be out-blustered and out-gloomed of their own wills, instead of being fooled out of them by acts of tenderness and complaisance.
2. To outdo in blustering, to get the better of by bluster.
a1863Thackeray Round. Papers, Medal Geo. IV (1869) 358 If ever I steal a teapot, and my women don't stand up for me..outbluster the policeman, and utter any amount of fibs before Mr. Beak, those beings are not what I take them to be. 1878J. Inglis Sport & Work xiii. 146 A man..in fierce altercation with another, who tries his utmost to outbluster his furious declamation. |