If you tell the captain of the basketball team that you're going to beat him at a game of hoops even though you've never played, you're speaking with a lot of bluster or false confidence and bravado.
To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.
Noun
a swaggering show of courage
Noun
vain and empty boasting
Noun
a violent gusty wind
Noun
noisy confusion and turbulence; "he was awakened by the bluster of their preparations"
Verb
act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
Verb
show off
Verb
blow hard; be gusty, as of wind; "A southeaster blustered onshore"; "The flames blustered"
v. i.
To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to
be windy and boisterous, as the weather.
v. i.
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.
v. t.
To utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by
blustering; to bully.
n.
Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds;
boisterousness.
n.
Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful
language.
Bluster
And ever-threatening storms Of Chaos blustering round.2.
Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants.
Bluster
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
To the winds they set Their corners, when with bluster to confound Sea, air, and shore.2.
To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.
To utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully.
Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness.
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