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单词 blusterer
释义 blusterer|ˈblʌstərə(r)|
[f. bluster v. + -er1.]
One who or that which blusters. a. One who utters loud empty boasts or menaces; a loud or violent inflated talker, a braggart.
1597Shakes. Lover's Compl. 58 A reverend man..Sometime a blusterer, that the ruffle knew of court, of city.1624Gataker Transubst. 68 You see what substantiall proofes this great Blusterer hath brought.1712Steele Spect. No. 484 ⁋5 We live in an age wherein a few empty blusterers carry away the praise of speaking.1833Lamb Elia (1860) 401 Milton has made him at once a blusterer, a giant, and a dastard.1836Fraser's Mag. XIII. 195 A mixture of the blusterer and the sneak.
b. A blustering wind.
1877Bryant Among Trees 18 When he, The exhausted Blusterer, flies beyond the hills?
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