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==English==

===Etymology===
{{surf|en|bluster|-ing}}.

===Noun===
{{en-noun|~}}

# A noisy blowing, as of a blast of wind.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1784|author=William Augustus Miles|title=Letters of Neptune and Gracchus|location=London|publisher=M. Smith|page=41|url=https://archive.org/details/lettersofneptune00mileuoft
|passage=He will soon disregard the roaring of your eloquence, as the bold sailor contemns the '''blustering''' of the winds {{...}}}}
# Swaggering; braggartry; noisy pretension.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1906|author=w:Theodore Roosevelt|title=A Square Deal|chapter=A Square Deal and the Monroe Doctrine|page=179|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=SoNABAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
|passage=Boasting and '''blustering''' are as objectionable among nations as among individuals, and the public men of a great nation owe it to their sense of national self-respect to speak courteously of foreign powers just as a brave and self-respecting man treats all around him courteously.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1906|author=Violet Hunt|title=The Workaday Woman|page=1
|passage=Quiet people too, for I think that about this time a sort of remorseful tenderness comes over the bullies and the nagsters, so that they go about gently and deprecatingly, hoping by one day's record sweetness to outface the year's '''blusterings'''.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|title=Halfway Coexistence|journal=[[w:Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=18 April 1960|titleurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130721164719/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,869591,00.html
|passage=In Moscow, where parties are judged by the quantity and quality of Russian officials who attend, the U.S. party was a smashing success. Some attributed it to the popularity of Ambassador Thompson, others felt it was another sign that coexistence is still Soviet policy in spite of Khrushchev’s '''blustering'''.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=26 February 2010|author=Emily Hill|title=The Pub Bore of British Letters|journal=[[w:Spiked (magazine)|Spiked]]|url=http://www.spiked-online.com/review_of_books/article/8240#.WFWfOFypgqI
|passage=Generally, you know, I’m conspiracy-theory-phobic. But in this case, all [[w:Martin Amis|Amis]]’s '''blustering''' about how he’s ill-treated seems to mask the reality of a completely simpering attitude to our greatest living novelist utterly regardless of the quality of his literary output.}}

===Adjective===
{{en-adj}}

# Engaged in or involving the process of [[bluster]]ing, [[speak]]ing or [[protest]]ing loudly.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1593|author=w:Gabriel Harvey|title=Pierce’s supererogation, or a New Prayse of the Old Asse|url=http://www.bartleby.com/359/26.html
|passage=But when we began to renue our old acquaintance, and to shake the handes of discontinued familiaritie, alas, good Gentleman, his [[mandilion|mandillion]] was ouercropped, his witt paunched like his wiues spindle, his art shanked like a lath, his conceit as lank as a shotten herring, and that same '''blustering''' eloquence as bleake and wan as the Picture of a forlorne Loouer.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1820|author=w:Charles Caleb Colton|title=Lacon, or Many Things in Few Words, addressed to those who think|location=New York|publisher=C.P. Fessende|year_published=1832|volume=1|page=173|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=LmMoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
|passage=Oratory is the huffing and '''blustering''' spoilt-child of a semi-barbarous age.}}
#* {{RQ:Lewis Babbitt|chapter=9|section=I|text=For once Babbitt did not break out in '''blustering''' efforts to keep the party going.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=Colin Freeman|title=Egypt’s revolution: leaders must obey new rules, but protesters still impatient for elections and change|journal=w:The Daily Telegraph|date=16 March 2011|titleurl=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/8386731/Egypts-revolution-leaders-must-obey-new-rules-but-protesters-still-impatient-for-elections-and-change.html
|passage=In the old days, such impertinence might have seen Mr Aswani taken directly from the studio to the cells; this time, though, it was the prime minister who paid the price. Rendered a nationwide laughing stock by his '''blustering''' performance, he resigned a day later - the first casualty of a new era of Egyptian politics, where ministers’ careers are ended not by presidential decree, or by mass street uprising, but because they themselves feel they have failed.}}
# [[pompous|Pompous]] or [[arrogant]] in one's [[speech]] or [[bearing]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1820|title=The Retort Courteous |author= |page= |ISBN= |passage=The Old Inquirer, said Dick Honesty, in' visiting the sick, has seen too many bold, '''blustering''' Infidels, in this nasty condition, to entertain the smallest penchant either for their principles, or their exqusitely delightful exits. }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1833 |title=Miscellaneous Tales, Original and Select, in Prose and Verse |author=R.G.G.  |page= |ISBN= |passage=A '''BLUSTERING FELLOW''' ! There 's a deadly bore, Placed in a good man's way, who only yearns For happiness and joy. }}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1947|author=w:Upton Sinclair|title=w:Presidential Mission|chapter=25, I|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=pMka9T8kvyEC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
|passage=Hermann Göring was a dominating and '''blustering''' host. His unresting ego did not permit him to permit his guests to do what they pleased; he told them how to entertain themselves, and he told them what to think. When he was with them, he took charge of the conversation; when he chose to be funny, they all laughed, and he laughed loudest.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1991|title=Social Issues: Meditative Thinking and the Threefold Social Order |author=Rudolf Steiner  |page= |ISBN=0880103582 |passage=At one time there lived here in Switzerland a '''blustering''' fellow — I ... I do not overestimate him — by the name of Johannes Scherr. Through his '''blustering''' approach and opinions he spoiled many of the sound ideas he presented to the public. }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1999|title=Billy Liar  |author=Willis Hall; Keith Waterhouse  |page=vi |ISBN=0174325495 |passage=Geoffrey is a more complex person than the '''blustering''' character who appears in Act One.  }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2012|title=A Journey to the Tea Countries of China |author=Robert Fortune  |page= |ISBN=110804641X |passage=When he came up he began pushing our boat aside as he had done the others, and in a '''blustering''' manner desired us to allow him to get on, as he was in a great hurry. }}
# Very [[windy]]; (''of wind'') [[blow]]ing very [[strongly]], [[blustery]].
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-1|V|1|text=The southern wind<br>Doth play the trumpet to his purposes,<br>And by his hollow whistling in the leaves<br>Foretells a tempest and a '''blustering''' day.}}
#* '''1640''', {{w|George Herbert}}, ''Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc.'', in ''The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert'', London: Pickering, 1841, p. 152,<sup>[https://archive.org/details/remainsofthats00her]</sup>
#*: A '''blustering''' night, a fair day.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1793|author=w:William Wordsworth|title=An Evening Walk, Addressed to a Young Lady|url=http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww114.html
|passage=Theirs be these holms untrodden, still, and green,<br>Where leafy shades fence off the '''blustering''' gale,<br>And breathes in peace the lily of the vale!}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1917|author=w:Siegfried Sassoon|chapter=A Poplar and the Moon|title=The Old Huntsman and Other Poems|url=https://archive.org/details/oldhuntsmanother00sassrich|page=86|publisher=William Heinemann|location=London
|passage=But May, with slumbrous nights, must pass;<br>And '''blustering''' winds will strip the tree.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|title=There’s Nothing to Be Sorry For|journal=[[w:Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=20 December 1963|titleurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130817072418/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,938943,00.html
|passage=They ripped out the phone, took Sinatra outside and disappeared into a '''blustering''' snowstorm.}}

====Synonyms====
* {{l|en|swaggering}}, {{l|en|braggartry}}

====Derived terms====
{{col-auto|en|blusteringly}}

===Verb===
{{head|en|verb form}}

# {{infl of|en|bluster||ing-form}}