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語源

From Middle English blusteren (“to wander about aimlessly”); however, apparently picking up the modern sense from Middle Low German blüstren (“to blow violently”; compare later Low German blustern, blistern). Related to blow, blast. Compare also Saterland Frisian bloasje (“to blow”), bruusje (“to bluster”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈblʌs.tə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈblʌs.tɚ/
• (米国発音)
• (General Australian)
• 韻: -ʌstə(ɹ)

名詞

bluster (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 blusters)

1. Pompous, officious talk.
   • 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:

     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.

2. A gust of wind.
3. Fitful noise and violence.

同意語

• (pompous talk): bombast

動詞

bluster (三人称単数 現在形 blusters, 現在分詞 blustering, 過去形および過去分詞形 blustered)

1. To speak or protest loudly.

   When confronted by opposition his reaction was to bluster, which often cowed the meek.

2. To act or speak in an unduly threatening manner.
   • 1774 April 19, Edmund Burke, Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. on American Taxation, April 19, 1774, 2nd edition, London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], published 1775, →OCLC:

     Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants.

   • 1532, Thomas More, Confutation of Tyndale's Answer:

     He bloweth and blustereth out […] his abominable blasphemy.

   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, James Nichols, editor, The Church History of Britain, […], new edition, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, →OCLC:

     As if therewith he meant to bluster all princes into a perfect obedience to his commands.

3. To blow in strong or sudden gusts.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     And ever-threatening storms / Of Chaos blustering round.

派生語

アナグラム

• Butlers, Struble, brustle, bustler, butlers, subtler, turbels