Sc. Also 6 wo(u)stour, woistare. [f. prec.] A braggart or boaster.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, xiv. 41. Sic vant of wostouris with hairtis in sinfull staturis.
1513. Douglas, Æneid, V. vii. 62. Bot war I now … ȝing as ȝone wanton woustour [v.r. woīstare] … I suld all reddy be.
a. 1568. Nine Order Knaves, 18, in Bannatyne MS., 447. He is als … he and prowd as ane vane woustour.
1670. Ray, Prov., 276. Of vousters or new upstarts.
1710. Ruddiman, Douglas’s Æneis, Gloss. s.v. Woistare, Scot. Vouster, a boaster.
