[f. BLUSTER v. + -ER1.] One who or that which blusters.
a. One who utters loud empty boasts or menaces; a loud or violent inflated talker, a braggart.
1597. Shaks., Lover’s Compl., 58. A reverend man … Sometime a blusterer, that the ruffle knew of court, of city.
1624. Gataker, Transubst., 68. You see what substantiall proofes this great Blusterer hath brought.
1712. Steele, Spect., No. 484, ¶ 5. We live in an age wherein a few empty blusterers carry away the praise of speaking.
1833. Lamb, Elia (1860), 401. Milton has made him at once a blusterer, a giant, and a dastard.
1836. Fraser’s Mag., XIII. 195. A mixture of the blusterer and the sneak.
b. A blustering wind.
1877. Bryant, Among Trees, 18. When he, The exhausted Blusterer, flies beyond the hills?
