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单词 bluster
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blustern.

Brit. /ˈblʌstə/, U.S. /ˈbləstər/
Etymology: < bluster v.
1.
a. Boisterous blowing; a rough and stormy blast.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > blowing > violently
blustering1530
bluster1582
hurling1582
scour1808
burly1876
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 4 Thee northen bluster aproching Thee sayls tears tag rag.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iii. iii. 4 The skies looke grimly, And threaten present blusters . View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 665 To the Winds they set Thir corners, when with bluster to confound Sea, Aire, and Shoar. View more context for this quotation
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xx. 125 Could we but direct the bluster, and bid it roar when..we pleased.
†b. figurative. Tempest of wrath, blast of envy, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > anger > manifestation of anger > [noun] > fit(s) or outburst(s) of anger
wratha1200
wrethea1400
hatelc1400
angerc1425
braida1450
fumea1529
passion1530
fustian fume1553
ruff1567
pelt1573
spleen1590
blaze1597
huff1599
blustera1616
dog-flawa1625
overboiling1767
explosion1769
squall1807
blowout1825
flare-up1837
fit1841
bust-up1842
wax1854
Scot1859
pelter1861
ructions1862
performance1864
outfling1865
rise1877
detonation1878
flare-out1879
bait1882
paddy1894
paddywhack1899
wingding1927
wing-dinger1933
eppie1987
the mind > emotion > jealousy or envy > [noun] > envy > outburst of
braida1450
blustera1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) v. v. 41 The bluster of thy wrath. View more context for this quotation
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis Ep. Ded. Able to bear up against the Malevolent Blusters of Envy.
c. figurative. A noisy and stormy commotion; a violent disturbance.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > [noun] > violent > instance of
combustion1579
hurricane1639
bluster1656
tear-up1886
1656 H. More Antidote Atheism (1712) Pref. 11 The laying or preventing the usual blusters of Christendom.
1773 J. Craddock in O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer Epil. In town I'll fix my station, And try to make a bluster in the nation.
1876 R. D. Blackmore Cripps (1877) v. 26 The footman..ran in a bluster of rage and terror.
2. The boisterous blast of a wind instrument, or any similar sound.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [noun] > loud sound or noise
chirma800
dina1000
utas1202
noise?c1225
nurthc1225
dinninga1400
glama1400
glavera1400
reer?a1400
reirdc1400
dunch1440
steveningc1440
rebound1457
bruit?1473
alarm1489
yell1509
gild?a1513
shout?a1513
reveriea1522
routa1522
thundering1560
rumouringc1563
dinrie?1566
rear1567
fray1568
thunder-crack1595
thunder1600
fanfarea1605
fragor1605
clamour1606
thunder-clap1610
obstrepency1623
tonitruation1658
randana1661
clarion1667
leden1674
bluster1724
salvoa1734
ding1750
row1753
tonance1778
dunder1780
chang1788
blare1807
flare1815
detonation1830
trump1848
trumpeting1850
foghorn1875
yammer1932
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [noun] > blaring
braga1522
bray1597
bluster1724
blaring1879
1724 J. Swift Prometheus (single sheet) By the Brazen Trumpets Bluster.
1868 N. Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1879) II. 156 The locomotive..making a great bluster.
3. Boisterous inflated talk, violent or angry self-assertion, noisy and empty menace, swaggering.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [noun]
facing1481
blusteringa1494
flirdom?a1500
bravity1546
bravery1548
roistingc1560
bravado1583
roister-doisterdom1592
swash1593
swaggeringa1596
huffing1600
hufty1609
huff1611
brustling1622
hufty-tufty1633
bouncing1634
hectorism1672
huffiness1678
bluster1692
bounce1714
bravadoism1833
fanfaronading1837
bush1840
huffishness1841
swashbuckling1888
bucko1909
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables ccvii. 178 A Coward..makes a Great Deal more Bluster then a Man of Honour.
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. Pref. p. i In spite of..all the Blusters of the..Ignorant.
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes v. 310 Mirabeau has much more of bluster; a noisy, forward, unresting man.
1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation §1. 7 A great deal of foolish bluster was talked about interference with private property.

Compounds

† bluster-master n. Obsolete a great blusterer.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [noun] > person
jettera1400
flirdom?a1500
facerc1500
termagant1508
rutterkina1529
bellomy1535
bystour1535
roister1549
swash1549
rush-buckler1551
roisterkin1553
swashbuckler1560
dash-buckler1567
swinge-buckler?1577
whiffler1581
huff-snuff1582
swish-swash1582
fixnet1583
swag1588
swasher?1589
kill-cow1590
roister-doister1592
dagger1597
flaunting Fabian1598
tisty-tosty1598
huff-cap1600
swaggerer1600
burgullian1601
huff-muff1602
tear-cat1606
blusterer1609
wag-feather1611
wind-cutter1611
bilbo-lorda1625
tearer1633
cacafuegoa1640
bravado1643
Hector1655
scaramouch1662
swashado1663
huffer1664
bluster-mastera1670
Drawcansir1672
bully huff1673
huff1674
belswagger1680
valienton1681
blunderbuss1685
Draw can bully1698
bouncer1764
Bobadil1771
bounce1819
pistol1828
sacripant1829
hufty1847
bucko1883
a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 99 A book publish'd by a bluster-master..call'd, A Coal from the Altar.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

blusterv.

Brit. /ˈblʌstə/, U.S. /ˈbləstər/
Forms: Also Middle English blostre, Middle English–1500s blustre, 1500s blaster.
Etymology: It is very doubtful whether the obsolete Middle English sense 1 has any connection with the later word in the other senses. With the former Mätzner compares the Low German blustern , blistern ‘to flutter or flap the wings in alarm like a frightened dove, etc.’, which perhaps may be a parallel onomatopoeia. The 16th cent. word has evident relations both in form and sense with the verbs blow v.1, blaze v.2, and blast v.: compare especially Old Norse blástr n. ‘blast, breath, blowing, hissing’ with the form blasterand in G. Douglas (= blustering adj.). Prof. Skeat also compares an East Frisian blüstern to bluster, < blüssen to blow, akin to blasen; and it is worthy of note that the Scots pronunciation is /blystə(r)/. But evidence is wanting as to the actual introduction of the word about 1500.
I. The Middle English verb.
†1. intransitive. To wander or stray (or ? to rush) blindly or aimlessly. Obsolete. Cf. blunder v. 3.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander > blindly or stupidly
bustlec1350
bluster1377
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 521 Ac þere was wyȝte non so wys þe wey þider couthe, But blustreden [1393 blostrede] forth as bestes ouer bankes and hilles.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 886 Þay blustered as blynde as bayard watz euer.
II. The modern verb.
2.
a. intransitive. Of the wind: To blow boisterously or with stormy violence. Also said of water agitated by wind or flood.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (of the wind) [verb (intransitive)] > blow strongly
besom?a1400
bluster1530
overblow1587
ruffiana1616
to blow great guns1779
to blow guns1833
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 459/1 This wynde blustereth a pace.
1579 S. Gosson Apol. Schoole of Abuse in Ephemerides Phialo f. 82 The wynde blustereth about the hilles, yet can not remoue them from their place.
1621–31 W. Laud Serm. (1847) 207 If God provide not a fence for this light of justice against the winds of temptation that bluster about it.
1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xii. 342 Loud winds arise, Lash the wild surge, and bluster in the skies.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Dream Fair Women xv, in Poems (new ed.) 126 When to land Bluster the winds and tides the selfsame way.
1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland 118 The winter storms began to bluster up the glen.
b. figurative of the storm or tempest of the passions.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > passion > be or become affected with passion [verb (intransitive)] > rage (of the passions)
ragea1522
bluster1549
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. James i. f. xxv Whan the storme of sorowes cometh blustreing in.
1645 Bp. J. Hall Remedy Discontentm. xviii. 109 The..passions which daily bluster within us.
c. transitive. To blow about, disarray, dishevel. rare. †to bluster down: to blow down with violence (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > break down, demolish, or ruin
spillc950
fellOE
to cast downc1230
destroy1297
to turn up?c1335
to throw down1340
to ding downc1380
to break downa1382
subverta1382
underturn1382
to take downc1384
falla1400
to make (a building, etc.) plain (with the earth)a1400
voida1400
brittenc1400
to burst downc1440
to pull downc1450
pluck1481
tumble1487
wreck1510
defacea1513
confound1523
raze1523
arase1530
to beat downc1540
ruinate1548
demolish1560
plane1562
to shovel down1563
race?1567
ruin1585
rape1597
unwall1598
to bluster down16..
raise1603
level1614
debolish1615
unbuilda1616
to make smooth work of1616
slight1640
to knock down1776
squabash1822
collapse1883
to turn over1897
mash1924
rubble1945
to take apart1978
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > beautify (the hair) [verb (transitive)] > let down or dishevel
unpleat1572
befrounce1581
untress1587
dishevel1598
uncoif1598
displat1627
unplait1865
bluster1876
16.. Seasonable Serm. 26 (T.) Doth the devil, by a tempestuous gust, bluster down the house?
1876 G. Meredith Beauchamp's Career II. iii. 42 A south-western autumnal gale..made threads of Cecilia's shorter locks..blustering the curls that streamed..from the silken band.
†3.
a. intransitive. Of persons: To blow, breathe hard.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > have or cause breathing disorder [verb (intransitive)] > become short of breath > pant
fnastc1000
puffc1300
pantc1350
fnesec1386
blowc1440
bluster1530
pech1538
pantlea1626
pank1669
heave1679
fuff1721
pipe1814
huff1881
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 459/1 He blustereth as thoughe he had laboured sore.
†b. Of a wind-instrument: To blow or blast boisterously. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > sound [verb (intransitive)] > wind instruments
blow?c1225
bray1340
toot1516
blustera1590
a1590 Randolph in MʽCrie Life Knox ii. 41 Six hundred trumpets continually blustering in our ears.
4. transitive. To utter with a blast, or with stormy violence and noise. Usually with out or forth.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > utter loudly or angrily
yeiea1225
call?c1250
soundc1374
ringa1400
upcasta1400
barkc1440
resound?c1525
blustera1535
brawl1563
thunder1592
out-thunder?1611
peal1611
tonitruate1623
intonatea1631
mouth1700
rip1828
boom1837
explode1839
clamour1856
blare1859
foghorn1886
megaphone1901
gruff1925
loudmouth1931
woof1934
a1535 T. More Wks. (R.) 374 He bloweth and blustereth out at last his abhominable blasphemy.
1548 T. Cranmer Catechismus sig. )(viij These more then deuylishe swerers..do blowe & bluster oute of theyr vngodly mouthes suche blasphemies.
1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) iv. i. 110 Foolish mouths..bluster foorth follies.
1891 C. Graves Field of Tares 181 He blustered out another oath as he looked at her.
1913 W. Owen Let. 2 Nov. (1967) 205 She blustered ‘it was now too late to go out!’
1955 A. Clarke Anc. Lights 14 A child of clay Had blustered it away.
5.
a. intransitive. Of persons: To storm or rage boisterously; to talk with inflated violence; to utter loud empty menaces or protests, to hector, play the bully.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > anger > manifestation of anger > show anger [verb (intransitive)] > speak angrily
spitc1386
ragea1400
blowc1475
blustera1494
storm?1553
pelt1594
tear1602
fare1603
to speak or look daggers1603
to blow hot coalsc1626
rant1647
scream1775
to pop off1914
to carry on1947
a1494 [implied in: W. Hylton Scala Perfeccionis (W. de W.) ii. xlv The soule dredeth no more the blustrynge of the fende, than þe stirynge of a mows. (at blustering n.1 2)].
1562 [implied in: T. Cooper Answere Def. Truth f. 8v, in Apol. Priuate Masse Quietly and calmely, without stormyng or tempestuous blustering..at you. (at blustering n.1 2)].
1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xxvi. sig. E11v His labour is meere blustring and furie.
1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature xviii. §1. 326 These tossings, tumblings, blusterings, bickerings..of the unruly passions.
1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (i. 18) 324 There stalkes pride, blustring through the streetes.
a1688 Duke of Buckingham Militant Couple in Wks. (1775) 128 Sir John..swore and bluster'd like a hero in one of our modern tragedies.
a1690 Bp. E. Hopkins Wks. 739 (R.) When they storm and bluster at the difficulties of salvation.
1773 S. Johnson Let. 21 Sept. (1992) II. 76 Boswel blusterd, but nothing could he get.
1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful II. xii. 298 Monsieur Tagliabue stormed and blustered.
1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. II. 154 He [Cleon] could talk and bluster on the bema.
b. transitive. To force, or drive, by blustering.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > anger > [verb (transitive)] > drive or move angrily
blustera1661
a1661 Fuller in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1890) He meant to bluster all princes into a perfect obedience.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. ii. 5 We have..blustered away between us half a score more of her admirers.
1867 E. Yates Forlorn Hope III. vi. 141 The one point on which he could neither satisfy himself by a feeling of pity nor bluster himself into a fit of indignation.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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