bluster
1. noisy confusion and turbulence (Freq. 2)
- he was awakened by the bluster of their preparations
• Hypernyms:
confusion
2. a swaggering show of courage (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
bravado
• Hypernyms:
ostentation, fanfare, flash
3. a violent gusty wind
• Derivationally related forms:
blustery, blusterous
• Hypernyms:
gust, blast, blow
4. vain and empty boasting
• Syn:
braggadocio, rodomontade, rhodomontade
• Hypernyms:
boast, boasting, self-praise, jactitation
1. blow hard;
be gusty, as of wind (Freq. 1)
- A southeaster blustered onshore
- The flames blustered
• Hypernyms:
blow
• Verb Frames:
- It is ----ing
2. show off (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag,
gas, blow, vaunt, gasconade
• Derivationally related forms:
gasconade (for: gasconade), vaunter (for: vaunt), vaunt (for: vaunt), blusterer, bragger (for: brag), braggart (for: brag), brag (for: brag), boast (for: boast), boaster (for: boast)
• Hypernyms:
overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise,
magnify, amplify
• Hyponyms:
puff, gloat, triumph, crow
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- Somebody ----s to somebody
3. act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
• Syn:
swagger, swash
• Derivationally related forms:
blusterer, swaggerer (for: swagger)
• Hypernyms:
act, behave, do
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
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