[f. as prec. + -ING2.]
1. Blowing boisterously; stormy, tempestuous.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, I. iii. 15. Ane blusterand [ed. 1553 blasterand] bub, out fra the northt braying.
1579. Spenser, Sheph. Cal., Dec., 132. His blustring blast eche coste doth scoure.
1633. G. Herbert, Temple, 90. While blustring windes destroy the wanton bowres.
1747. Hervey, Medit. & Contempl. (1818), 134. If the … flowers should presume to come abroad in the blustering months.
1878. Black, Green Past., xviii. 143. These moist and blustering November days.
2. fig. Tempestuous, stormy; turbulent.
1587. Bryskett, Mourn. Muse Thestylis, 78. Whose blustring sighes at first their sorrow did declare.
1633. Bp. Hall, Hard Texts, 503. The blustring and unsteady state of all these earthly Kingdoms. Ibid. (a. 1656), Rem. Wks. (1660), 149. Gods Spirit leads not in a blustring and hurrying violence.
3. Violent in speech and demeanor; loud-talking, self-assertive, hectoring, boastful, swaggering.
1652. Wharton, Rothmann’s Chirom., Ded. 2. The Blustring noise of an Empty Title.
1770. Junius Lett., xxxviii. 187. Such … were the blustering promises.
1884. Sat. Rev., 14 June, 766/2. A turbulent and blustering diplomatist.
