bluster

bluster has 12 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. a swaggering show of courage
• n.. vain and empty boasting
• n.. a violent gusty wind
• n.. noisy confusion and turbulence; "he was awakened by the bluster of their preparations"
• v.. act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
• v.. show off
• v.. blow hard; be gusty, as of wind; "A southeaster blustered onshore"; "The flames blustered"