† blusteredadj.
Obsolete.
(See the verb.)
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > inflated or bombastic
fleshyc1369
windya1382
unmeasureda1425
puffing1566
embossed1578
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bombasted1589
fustian1592
puffya1594
full-mouthed1594
orificial1594
gouty1595
swelling1597
mouth-filling1598
taffeta1598
bombast1601
tiptoe-strouting1602
turgidous1602
swollen1605
dropsieda1616
exsufflicatea1616
turgent1621
ampullous1622
tympanous1625
high-flown1632
tumorousa1637
blustered1638
tumid1648
bombastical1649
ranting1650
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tuftaffetya1658
pompiona1670
bombastic1704
dropsical1721
thundering1725
turgid1725
exsuffolate1744
Lexiphanic1767
hi cockalorum1783
Ossianic1788
mouthing1814
mouthy1827
sophomoric1837
highfalutin1839
sophomorical1847
spread eagle1853
tumescent1882
Herodian1886
Ossianesque1889
Barnumesque1890
1638 R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) I. 151 I read to them out of my blustered papers that which I sent you of Arminianisme.
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