blusteryadj.
/ˈblʌstəri/ 1. Boisterously blowing.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [adjective] > strong
strongeOE
stiffc1290
sternc1374
wrothc1400
vehement1483
strainable1497
freshc1515
stout1533
bloysterous?1570
ruffing1577
boisterous?1594
lofty1600
chafing1762
blustery1774
smacking1820
snoring1822
spanking1849
gale force1902
1774 P. V. Fithian Jrnl. & Lett. (1900) 105 The day very blustry & cold.
1804 Jago Beauties Eng. Poetry I. 120 The blustry tempest and the chilling snow.
1874 T. B. Aldrich Prudence Palfrey xvii It was a blustery, frosty morning.
2. figurative. Stormy, noisily self-assertive, swaggering.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [adjective]
termagant1546
roisterly1555
swashing1556
puffing1566
roisting1567
cocking1568
braving1579
huffling1582
kill-cow1589
roister-doistering1593
roister-doisterly1593
hufty-tufty1596
swaggering1596
huff-cap1597
sword-and-buckler1598
huffing1602
pyrgopolinizing1605
bold-beatinga1616
swash1635
swaga1640
blustering1652
bravashing1652
hectoring1664
hectorly1676
huffy1677
huff-snuff1693
swashbuckling1693
flustering1698
blustery1739
huffish1755
bravading1812
topping1815
Bobadilish1832
Bobadilian1837
fanfaronading1837
bucko1883
swashbucklering1884
swaggery1886
blokeish1920
blokey1938
1739 G. Ogle Gualtherus & Griselda L'Envoy l. 2468 Why, to his blustry Oath, such Def'rence paid?
1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets v. 41.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iii. xii. 296 He seems to have been of a headlong, blustery, uncertain disposition.
1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xii. x. 326 The once very haughty, blustery, and now much-humiliated man.
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