blusterings

Noun

blustering (countable and uncountable, plural blusterings)

1. A noisy blowing, as of a blast of wind.
   • He will soon disregard the roaring of your eloquence, as the bold sailor contemns the blustering of the winds […]1784, William Augustus Miles, Letters of Neptune and Gracchus, London: M. Smith, page 41
2. Swaggering; braggartry; noisy pretension.
   • Boasting and blustering are as objectionable among nations as among individuals, and the public men of a great nation owe it to their sense of national self-respect to speak courteously of foreign powers just as a brave and self-respecting man treats all around him courteously.1906, Theodore Roosevelt, “A Square Deal and the Monroe Doctrine”, in A Square Deal, page 179

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