Blustering

blustering
    adj 1: blowing in violent and abrupt bursts; "blustering (or
           blusterous) winds of Patagonia"; "a cold blustery day";
           "a gusty storm with strong sudden rushes of wind" [syn:
           {blustering(a)}, {blusterous}, {blustery}]
    

Bluster \Blus"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Blustered}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Blustering}.] [Allied to blast.]
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   1. To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be
      windy and boisterous, as the weather.
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            And ever-threatening storms
            Of Chaos blustering round.            --Milton.
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   2. To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or
      boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to
      play the bully; to storm; to rage.
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            Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic
            tyrants.                              --Burke.
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Blustering \Blus"ter*ing\, a.
   1. Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy;
      tumultuous.
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            A tempest and a blustering day.       --Shak.
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   2. Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous.
      "A blustering fellow." --L'Estrange.
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96 Moby Thesaurus words for "blustering":
      abusive, aeolian, airish, airy, anarchic, angry, blaring, blasty,
      blatant, blatting, blowy, bludgeoning, blusterous, blustery,
      boisterous, boreal, brassy, brawling, brazen, breezy, brisk,
      browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, chaotic, clamant, clamorous,
      clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, coarse, comminatory,
      denunciatory, drafty, favonian, fear-inspiring, flawy, foreboding,
      frantic, frenzied, fresh, furious, gusty, hectoring, hellish,
      imminent, infuriate, insensate, intimidating, lowering, mad,
      mafficking, menacing, minacious, minatory, mindless, noiseful,
      noisy, obstreperous, ominous, orgasmic, orgastic, pandemoniac,
      puffy, rackety, raging, ranting, ravening, raving, rip-roaring,
      roistering, roisterous, rollicking, rough, rowdy, squally,
      storming, stormy, strepitant, strepitous, swaggering,
      swashbuckling, swashing, tempestuous, terroristic, terrorizing,
      threatening, threatful, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent,
      uproarious, vociferous, wild, windy