Crow and Bluster

noun

• Black birds having a raucous call.
• The cry of a cock (or an imitation of it. )
• A member of the Siouan people formerly living in eastern Montana.
• A small quadrilateral constellation in the southern hemisphere near Virgo.
  • synonyms: Corvus
• An instance of boastful talk.
  • usage: "his brag is worse than his fight"; "whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade"
  • synonyms: brag, bragging, crowing, vaporing, line-shooting, gasconade
• A Siouan language spoken by the Crow.

verb

• Dwell on with satisfaction.
  • synonyms: gloat, triumph
• Express pleasure verbally.
  • usage: "She crowed with joy"
• Utter shrill sounds.
  • usage: "The cocks crowed all morning"

• (v.i.) A bar of iron with a beak, crook or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.
• (v.i.) To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
• (v.i.) The cry of the cock. See Crow, v. i., 1.
• (v.i.) To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety or defiance.
• (v.i.) The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.
• (v.i.) To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure.
• (v.i.) A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. It has a harsh, croaking note. See Caw.

noun

• Noisy confusion and turbulence.
  • usage: "he was awakened by the bluster of their preparations"
• A swaggering show of courage.
  • synonyms: bravado
• A violent gusty wind.
• Vain and empty boasting.
  • synonyms: braggadocio, rodomontade, rhodomontade

verb

• Blow hard; be gusty, as of wind.
  • usage: "A southeaster blustered onshore"; "The flames blustered"
• Show off.
  • synonyms: boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, vaunt, gasconade
• Act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner.
  • synonyms: swagger, swash

• (n.) Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness.
• (v.i.) To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the bully; to storm; to rage.
• (v.t.) To utter or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully.
• (v.i.) To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.
• (n.) Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language.