| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| bluster |
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| SYLLABICATION: | blus·ter |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  bl s t r |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: blus·tered, blus·ter·ing, blus·ters
| | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To blow in loud, violent gusts, as the wind during a storm. 2a. To speak in a loudly arrogant or bullying manner. b. To brag or make loud, empty threats. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To force or bully with swaggering threats. | | NOUN: | 1. A violent, gusty wind. 2. Turbulence or noisy confusion. 3. Loud, arrogant speech, often full of empty threats. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English blusteren, from Middle Low German blüsteren. | | OTHER FORMS: | bluster·er —NOUN
bluster·y, bluster·ous —ADJECTIVE
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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