From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[2009]
*** Etymology
From [en]; however, apparently picking up the modern sense from [en] [“to blow
violently”; compare later Low German [nds] , [nds]]. Related to [en], [en].
Compare also [stq], [stq].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[~]
1. Pompous , officious talk .
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=2013-06-22 | volume=407 | issue=8841 | page=70 | magazine=w:The Economist
|title=Engineers of a different kind (see
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21579879-buy-out-firm-really-does-focus-operational-improvements-engineers)
|passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what
leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the
businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so.
Much of their pleading is public-relations BLUSTER.}}
1. A gust of wind .
2. Fitful noise and violence.
**** Synonyms
- [pompous talk] [en]
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[pompous, officious talk]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Maori:
- Norwegian: uforskammet mas , [no]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] , [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
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[gust of wind]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Scots: [sco]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[fitful noise and violence]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norwegian: [no] , [no]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy] , [cy] , [cy]
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*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To speak or protest loudly.
2. To act or speak in an unduly threatening manner.
3. * {{ RQ:Burke American Taxation
|passage=Your ministerial directors BLUSTERED like tragic tyrants.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1532 | author=w:Thomas More | title=Confutation of Tyndale's Answer
|passage=He bloweth and BLUSTERETH out [...] his abominable blasphemy.}}
1. * {{ RQ:Fuller Church History
|passage=As if therewith he meant to BLUSTER all princes into a perfect
obedience to his commands.}}
1. To blow in strong or sudden gust s (refers to winds).
2. * [book=3]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en |abluster |blusterer |blustering |blusterous |blustery }}
**** Translations
[to speak or protest loudly]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Norwegian: [no] , [no] , opptre uforskammet
- Quechua: [qu]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[to act or speak in a threatening manner]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[to blow in strong or sudden gusts]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scots: [sco]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]