bluster
verb (used without object)
to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
blusterer
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a word derived from
bluster.
Example Sentences
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Johnson, a serial blusterer who relishes the role of entertaining after-dinner speaker, won the heart of his party and the country with such lines.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2022
He is "stupid" or a "blusterer," rather than dangerous.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2021
Laurel was born in Ulverston - then in Lancashire, now in Cumbria - before emigrating to the US and finding fame in Hollywood as foil to Hardy's pompous blusterer.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2016
Ryan: Another loud-mouthed blusterer who thought it was all about HIM--and who repeatedly failed to deliver...
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2014
The ridiculous gun-boat fleet was laughed at, and the government was placed in the position of a weak blusterer.
From Harper's Young People, August 10, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
