SuaviloquyToday’s word

blustering

Blustering, a.

1. Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous. A tempest and a blustering day. Shak.

2. Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous. "A blustering fellow." L'Estrange.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for blustering; he lists it under bluff.

He lists it without comment; the entries above explain its neighbors.