Bluster
Bluster ({not transcribed}) , intransitive verb
[Allied to blast.]
1.
To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.
And ever-threatening storms
Of Chaos blustering round.
2.
To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the bully; to storm; to rage.
Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants.
Bluster , transitive verb
To utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully.
He bloweth and blustereth out... his abominable blasphemy.
As if therewith he meant to bluster all princes into a perfect obedience to his commands.
Bluster , noun
1.
Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness.
To the winds they set
Their corners, when with bluster to confound
Sea, air, and shore.
2.
Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language. — L'Estrange