bluster

The wind blustered around the house.

you threaten and bluster, but won't carry it through.

He blustered his way through the crowd.

a winter gale blustered against the sides of the house.

The storm is bluster ing northeastward across the open Atlantic.

he was a big, blustering, opinionated cop, full of self-importance.

submissive children can be cowed by a look of disapproval. Tobully is to intimidate through blustering, domineering, or threatening behavior:

Synonyms bludgeon, bluster, ||bounce, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, bullyrag, cow, dragoon, hector, ||ruffle, strong-arm, terrorize

blustering (or blusterous) winds of Patagonia; a cold blustery day; a gusty storm with strong sudden rushes of wind.

Stop your bluster of dispraise and of self-praise, And with the calm of silent prayer on your foreheads sail to that unnamed shore.

But by the end of the scene his bluster has revealed Osborne as a malingerer, a rummy and a jerk;

They blustered about how they would beat us all up.

" What do you...I'm afraid I...What? " blustered the Prime Minister.

Unfortunately, it is not just the standard bluster from a nativist politician railing against illegal immigration.

" By all accounts, he is no loss! " blustered Fudge.

I mean, just more bluster from the north, or does it signify something substantive?

" Why's he all right, then? " blustered Uncle Vernon.

“All right, all right, ” blustered Vernon Dursley. “You've made your point—”

Because being busted by a gust of bluster would be a " wheelie" big shame.

Inside the courtroom, A, there was a lot less of that bluster and tough talk.

" Jape all you like, Littlefinger, " Lord Belmore blustered. " The boy shall come with us" .