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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? |