Reverse Dictionary: BLUSTER

ADJECTIVES
1597 ► HUFF-CAP blustering, swaggering → arch.
1598 ► SWORD-AND-BUCKLER bragging, blustering → obs.
1677 ► HUFFY puffed up with pride, conceited or self-esteem; haughty, blustering → obs.
1693 ► HUFF-SNUFF blustering, arrogant, hectoring → obs.
1803 ► BOBADILIAN blustering, boasting, swaggering 
1824 ► BLAZING blustering, boasting → Sc.
1855 ► BLOW-HARD 1855 blustering, boastful → US
1883 ► BUCKO blustering, swaggering → nautical sl.
1891 ► TEARING blustering, boisterous; noisy; bustling → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1892 ► HAWCH-MOUTHED blustering, bullying; coarse, vulgar, or profane in speech → Eng. dial.
1898 ► BELVERING blustering, noisy → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 ► BLUSTERINER more blustering → Amer. dial.
1904 ► SCOUFF blustering → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► MANNISH blustering, aping manhood; overbearing; said of a youth → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► VORLUS SNORLUS blustering, rough → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1935 ► BIG-TALK blustering, boastful → Amer. dial.
2007 ► ALL MOUTH AND TROUSERS blustering and boastful; showing off without having the qualities to justify it → UK sl. (Bk.)
2007 ► ALL PISS AND WIND full of bluster and noise, but without real substance → sl. (Bk.)

ADVERBS
1677 ► BOUNCINGLY blusteringly, boastfully 

NOUNS
1440 ► BLORE noisy bluster; loud talking; bragging talk → arch.
17C.. ► CRAKE bluster, a boast or brag → obs.
1634 ► BOUNCING a blustering, bragging, or boasting; boastful exaggeration, lying; a good scolding 
1803 ► BLUSTERATION a blustering, bluster → Eng. dial. & colloq.
1825 ► GALLEHOOING blustering, empty talk; a stupefying noise without any sufficient reason → Sc. obs.
1825 ► SCOWF blustering, empty talk; braggadocio → Sc. obs.
1840 ► BUSH bluster, boasting, ‘tall talk’ → Amer. dial.
1907 ► GANDIEGOW blustering talk; an uproar, a noisy quarrel; a nonsensical prank; loud complaint → Sc.
1909 ► BUCKO bluster, swagger → nautical sl.
1940 ► SNOW bluster, smooth talk, bluff, lies → sl., orig. US
1974 ► FOFARRAW → FOOFOORAW bluster, ostentation; show-off → Amer. sl. (Bk.)

NOUNS – PERSON
1515 ► FACER a blusterer; one who boasts or swaggers; one who possesses ‘cheek’; a braggart’ a bully → obs.
1535 ► BELLOMY a blustering or audacious man → Sc. obs.
1570 ► BANGSTER a blustering fellow; a rough, violent fellow; a bully; a braggart; a ruffian; a thug → obs. exc. Sc.
1583 ► HUFF-SNUFF a blustering person; a conceited fellow who gives himself airs and is quick to take offense; a braggart → obs.
1593 ► HORREL-LORREL a blusterer 
1598 ► RODOMONT a blustering or vain boaster; a great bragger; a bully → arch.
1598 ► TISTITOSTIE → TISTY-TOSTY a blustering or swaggering fellow → obs.
17C.. ► GOD-DAM-ME a blustering, profane, aggressive thug → sl.
1602 ► HUFF-MUFF a braggart, a blusterer → obs.
1611 ► TEAR-CAT a blustering person; a swaggerer; a bully; one who causes a disturbance or trouble; a fierce or destructive person 
1611 ► WAG-FEATHER a blusterer; a swaggering coxcomb blusterer → obs.
1618 ► DAMME → DAMME-BOY → DAMMY-BOY a blustering, profane, aggressive thug; a person addicted to saying ‘Damme’; a profane swearer → obs.
1622 ► FANFARON a blusterer, a bully, a swaggerer; an empty boaster or braggart; a vain pretender 
1625 ► CACAFOGO → CACAFUEGO → CACAFUGO → CACOFUEGO a blusterer, a spitfire; a furious, fierce fellow; a braggart; a very difficult or devilish person; one with a fiery temper → sl.
1631 ► HECTOR a blusterer, a swaggering fellow; a swashbuckler; a braggart, a bully, a thug 
1632 ► FLASH a blustering vulgarian; a showy swindler → sl.
1664 ► TEARER a blustering or violent person; a person who tears or rushes along or about; a swaggerer, thug, or bully 
1672 ► DRAWCANSIR a blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart 
1681 ► VALIENTON a blustering person; a bully, a braggart → obs.
1688 ► BULLY a blustering gallant; a bravo, hector, or swashbuckler; later, a tyrannical coward who makes himself a terror to the weak 
1698 ► HACKUM a blustering bully; a bravo; a braggart → UK sl.
1706 ► HECK a blusterer; a braggart; a bully; a hector; a swaggering fellow; a swashbuckler → obs.
1746 ► HAWCH-A-MOUTH → HAWCH-MOUTH a blustering, foul-mouthed person; one who talks incessantly in a coarse, vulgar manner using obscene and offensive language → Eng. dial.
1818 ► GILLRAVAGER a blustering, wild, or lawless fellow → Sc.
1823 ► GRAMPUS a blusterer; a blustering fool → US sl., esp. nautical usage
1825 ► BELLICON a blustering fellow → Sc. obs.
1825 ► GULLIEWILLIE a noisy, blustering, quarrelsome fellow → Sc.
1825 ► SCOUFF→ SCOWF a blustering fellow → Sc. obs.
1825 ► WALLOCH-GOUL a blustering, noisy, demonstrative person; a wanton or arrogant blusterer → Sc. (Bk.)
1827 ► HECTORER a blusterer; one who hectors, brags, or domineers; one who plays the hector or bully 
1862 ► MOUTH-ALMIGHTY a blusterer; a very noisy, talkative person; a chatterbox → sl.
1878 ► BLABBERSKITE a blustering, talkative person; a voluble, boastful speaker; a vain-talking fellow → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1889 ► BLOW-HARD a blustering person; a braggart → US
1890 ► CAPTAIN FLASHAM a blustering, bounceable fellow → sl. (Bk.)
1891 ► CAPTAIN GRAND a blustering, haughty fellow → sl. (Bk.)
1896 ► GAUSTERER a blusterer; a swaggerer; a braggart → Eng. dial.
1897 ► BINKSER → BINXER a blustering, vulgar, loud-talking person; especially, a commercial traveller of this kind → sl.
1899 ► BUCKO a blustering, swaggering, or domineering fellow; sometimes used as a term of address → nautical sl.
1905 ► WALLACH a blustering, noisy, demonstrative person → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 ► BLUESTER a blusterer; one who uses bullying speech → Sc. (Bk.)
1913 ► BLATHERSKITE a blustering, talkative, or frivolous person → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1931 ► GHEEHO a blustering, uncouth fellow a ‘galoot’ → Sc.
1972 ► MOTHER SUPERIOR a blustering, boastful person; a blow-hard → homosexual sl. (Bk.)

PHRASES
1940 ► ALL PISS AND WIND LIKE THE BARBER’S DOG used of a blusterer or braggart → Aust. & NZ sl.

VERBS
1513 ► FACE AND BRACE to bluster; to domineer; to be defiant → obs.
1549 ► FACE IT AND BRACE IT to bluster, to defy, to bully verbally → sl.
1595 ► FRAPLE to bluster; to dispute, to wrangle → obs.
1623 ► ELATRATE to bluster, to rant, to roar; to speak loudly or violently → obs.
1626 ► BOUNCE to bluster; to talk big, to hector; to swagger → obs.
1628 ► VAPOUR to bluster, to brag; to talk fantastically, grandiloquently, or boastingly 
M17. ► HECTOR to bluster; to brag; to play the bully; to domineer 
1673 ► HUFFLE to bluster, to puff → obs.
1781 ► VAMPER → VOMPER to bluster; to brag, to boast, to swagger; to bully → Eng. dial.
19C.. ► BAMBLUSTERCATE to bluster; to confuse, to embarrass → sl.
1808 ► GANDY → GANIE to talk in a blustering, boastful, or pert fashion → Sc. obs.
1837 ► FANFARONADE to bluster, to swagger 
1872 ► BELVER to bluster; to roar, to cry loudly → Eng. dial.
1880 ► GET ONE’S RAG OUT to bluster; to grow angry; to enrage → sl.
1898 ► BLUFFIN to bluster, to swagger → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1911 ► BLAZE to bluster, to brag → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 ► BLEEZE to bluster; to boast; to spread news or scandal; to defame → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 ► BLOUST to bluster; to brag, to boast → Sc. (Bk.)