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bluster

Best crossword clue

"Boastful talk"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈblʌs.tə/Part of speech verb, nounSorted belrstuStarts with BEnds with R1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner

Word origin

From Middle English blusteren (“to wander about aimlessly”); however, apparently picking up the modern sense from Middle Low German blüstren (“to blow violently”; compare later Low German blustern, blistern). Related to blow, blast. Compare also Saterland Frisian bloasje (“to blow”), bruusje (“to bluster”).

Used in a sentence

  • When confronted by opposition his reaction was to bluster, which often cowed the meek.
  • Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants.
  • He bloweth and blustereth out […] his abominable blasphemy.

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