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blusterous, a.|ˈblʌstərəs|
Also 6 blusterus, bloustreous, 7 blustrous.
[f. bluster n. + -ous.]
1. Boisterous, rough, stormy.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke vi. 48 (R.) Agaynste any bloustreous storme or tempeste. 1608Shakes. Per. iii. i. 28 Mild may be thy life! For a more blustrous birth had never babe. 1841Marryat Poacher i, A blusterous windy night.
2. fig. Violent, truculent; given to blustering.
1663Butler Hud. i. iii. 880 Benigne, and not blustrous Against a vanquisht Foe. 1866Sat. Rev. 21 Apr. 473 His rude and blusterous wrath. 1877Motley Barneveld II. xvii. 232 A certain blusterous gentleman.
Hence ˈblusterously adv.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke xxiv. 37 If lyke perill had bloustreously come upon theim. 1576Newton tr. Lemnie's Complex. (1633) 149 Northerne blasts (which sometime blusterously blow in the Summer season). 1905G. Gissing Will Warburton xl. 273 ‘The counter; my counter!’..shouted Will blusterously. |