0 present participle of bluster
1 to speak in a loud, angry, or offended way, usually with little effect:
[ + speech ] "You had no right to do it, no right at all," he blustered.
In the final scene, drunken wedding guests are toasting the health of the bridal couple when the police make their blustering, inarticulate entrance.
The snake-handlers in these novels are usually blustering patriarchs, sometimes violent ' ' plaster saints ' ' but always charismatic - if philandering - husbands and fathers.
It seems possible that she recoiled from "blustering 'muscularity' " also because it caricatured her own capacity for belligerence and dogmatism.
In considering all three, he displays an unusual talent for balancing the polemical blustering on all sides.
That was reported on the "ticker"as the"worst type of silly, blustering blackguard".
Men who took part in it and who made it a failure have been blustering about it.
Finally, he is here in person tonight, and is openly blustering about wanting to get his way, as he always tries to do.
The pride of race is distended to blustering arrogance.
