blustery
Use the adjective blustery to describe weather that brings extremely strong gusts of wind. It's much easier to fly a kite on a blustery day than when there's no wind at all.
While this word is frequently used for weather — think blustery October days with leaves blowing and people clutching their hats — it can also describe people who act aggressively or confidently but don't follow through. All that blustery talk about your football team's superiority won't mean a thing when they lose badly yet again. The source of blustery is the noun bluster, "loud or indignant talk with little effect," from a Germanic root meaning "blow violently."
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blowing in violent and abrupt bursts“a cold blustery day”synonyms: blustering, blusterousstormy(especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion
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noisily domineering; tending to browbeat otherssynonyms: bullyingdomineeringtending to domineer
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