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Bluster
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- 1 Pompous, officious talk. countable, uncountable
"Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster."
- 2 a swaggering show of courage wordnet
- 3 A gust of wind. countable, uncountable
- 4 vain and empty boasting wordnet
- 5 Fitful noise and violence. countable, uncountable
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- 6 a violent gusty wind wordnet
- 7 noisy confusion and turbulence wordnet
- 1 To speak or protest loudly.
"When confronted by opposition his reaction was to bluster, which often cowed the meek."
- 2 act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner wordnet
- 3 To act or speak in an unduly threatening manner.
"Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants."
- 4 show off wordnet
- 5 To blow in strong or sudden gusts (refers to winds).
"And ever-threatening storms / Of Chaos blustering round."
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- 6 blow hard; be gusty, as of wind wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English blusteren (“to wander about aimlessly”); however, apparently picking up the modern sense from Middle Low German blüstren (“to blow violently”; compare later Low German blustern, blistern). Related to blow, blast. Compare also Saterland Frisian bloasje (“to blow”), bruusje (“to bluster”).
From Middle English blusteren (“to wander about aimlessly”); however, apparently picking up the modern sense from Middle Low German blüstren (“to blow violently”; compare later Low German blustern, blistern). Related to blow, blast. Compare also Saterland Frisian bloasje (“to blow”), bruusje (“to bluster”).
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