Definition of "blustering" in English

noun

1. A noisy blowing, as of a blast of wind.

2. Swaggering; braggartry; noisy pretension.

adjective

1. Engaged in or involving the process of blustering, speaking or protesting loudly.

2. Pompous or arrogant in one's speech or bearing.

3. Very windy; (of wind) blowing very strongly, blustery.

   • 1640, George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc., in The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert, London: Pickering, 1841, p. 152, A blustering night, a fair day.

verb

1. present participle and gerund of bluster