[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bluster \blus"ter\, v. t.
   to utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering;
   to bully.
   1913 webster

         he bloweth and blustereth out . . . his abominable
         blasphemy.                               --sir t. more.
   1913 webster

         as if therewith he meant to bluster all princes into a
         perfect obedience to his commands.       --fuller.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bluster \blus"ter\, n.
   1. fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds;
      boisterousness.
      1913 webster

            to the winds they set
            their corners, when with bluster to confound
            sea, air, and shore.                  --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful
      language. --l'estrange.
      1913 webster

   syn: noise; boisterousness; tumult; turbulence; confusion;
        boasting; swaggering; bullying.
        1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bluster \blus"ter\, v. i. imp.  p. p. blustered; p. pr. 
   vb. n. blustering. allied to blast.
   1913 webster
   1. to blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be
      windy and boisterous, as the weather.
      1913 webster

            and ever-threatening storms
            of chaos blustering round.            --milton.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            your ministerial directors blustered like tragic
            tyrants.                              --burke.
      1913 webster
see also:
blustered blustering 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

bluster
     n 1: noisy confusion and turbulence; "he was awakened by the
          bluster of their preparations"
     2: a swaggering show of courage syn: bravado
     3: a violent gusty wind
     4: vain and empty boasting syn: braggadocio, rodomontade,
        rhodomontade
     v 1: blow hard; be gusty, as of wind; "a southeaster blustered
          onshore"; "the flames blustered"
     2: show off syn: boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag,
         gas, blow, vaunt, gasconade
     3: act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
        syn: swagger, swash
see also:
bravado braggadocio rodomontade rhodomontade boast tout 
swash shoot a line brag gas blow 
vaunt gasconade swagger 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

198 moby thesaurus words for "bluster":
   agitation, bawl, be livid, be pissed, bellow, blast, blow,
   blow a hurricane, blow great guns, blow over, blow up, bludgeon,
   bluff, bluster and bluff, bluster out of, boast, boastfulness,
   boasting, bobbery, boil, boiling, bombast, bounce, brag,
   braggadocio, braggartism, bragging, bravado, brawl, breeze,
   breeze up, brew, broil, brouhaha, browbeat, browned off, bulldoze,
   bully, bullyrag, burn, bustle, cacophony, carry on, chafe, chaos,
   churn, clamor, come up, commotion, conceit, conturbation, cow,
   crow, demoralize, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude,
   disturbance, dragoon, draw the longbow, ebullition, embroilment,
   excitement, fanaticism, fanfaronade, ferment, fermentation, fever,
   feverishness, fidgets, flap, flourish, flurry, fluster,
   flutteration, foment, fomentation, foofaraw, frenzy, freshen, fret,
   fume, furor, furore, fury, fuss, gasconade, gasconism, gather,
   go on, grandiloquence, harangue, harass, have a conniption, hector,
   heroics, hot air, hubbub, huff, hurly-burly, inquietude,
   intimidate, jactation, jactitation, jitters, jumpiness, look big,
   maelstrom, malaise, moil, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness,
   out-herod herod, pandemonium, passion, perturbation, pipe up,
   pissed off, puff, puffery, racket, rage, raging, raise cain,
   raise hell, raise the devil, raise the roof, rant, rant and rave,
   rave, raving, restlessness, rodomontade, roil, roister, rollick,
   rout, row, ruckus, rumpus, seethe, seething, set in, show off,
   side, simmer, sizzle, slang, smoke, smolder, speak for buncombe,
   splutter, sputter, squall, stew, stir, storm, storminess, storming,
   strut, swagger, swaggering, swashbuckle, swirl,
   systematically terrorize, take on, talk big, tempestuousness,
   terrorize, threaten, throw a fit, to-do, trepidation, trepidity,
   tumult, tumultuation, tumultuousness, turbidity, turbulence,
   turmoil, twitter, unease, unrest, uproar, upset, vanity, vapor,
   vaunt, vauntery, vaunting, waft, whiff, whiffle, wildness, zeal,
   zealousness

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