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To boast; to brag; to bluster.

A great boaster; a blusterer.

A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes.

Resembling a hector; blustering; insolent; taunting. "Hectorly, ruffianlike swaggering or huffing." Barrow.

To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense. THis senseless arrogant conceit of theirs made them huff at the doctrine of repentance. South.

A blusterer; a bully. [Obs.] -- a.

A bully; a blusterer. Hudibras.

Blusteringly; arrogantly. [R.] And huffingly doth this bonny Scot ride. Old Ballad.

Disposed to be blustering or arrogant; petulant. -- Huff"ish*ly, adv. -- Huff"ish*ness, n.

A vain or blustering boaster; a braggart; a braggadocio. Sir T. Herbert.

Vain boasting; empty bluster or vaunting; rant. I could show that the rodomontades of Almanzor are neither so irrational nor impossible. Dryden.

To bluster; to swagger; to bully; to be bold, noisy, vaunting, or turbulent. I have a roisting challenge sent amongst The dull and factious nobles of the Greeks. Shak.

A blustering, turbulent fellow. If two roisterers met, they cocked their hats in each other faces. Macaulay.

Blustering; violent. [R.]

To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate. Blustering winds, which all night long Had roused the sea. Milton.

trolled; self- possessed. There was not a sober person to be had; all was tempestuous and blustering. Druden. No sober man would put himself into danger for the applause of escaping without breaking his neck. Dryden.

A blustering demonstration, or great effort; a great display. [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully. What a pleasant it is . . . to swagger at the bar! Arbuthnot. To be great is not . . . to swagger at our footmen. Colier.

One who swaggers; a blusterer; a bully; a boastful, noisy fellow. Shak.

To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.