bluster [LME] Bluster first appears in our records in the sense ‘to shout angrily’, developing into ‘making largely empty menaces’ and is only recorded in the mid 16th century in the sense describing strong winds. However, this may just be by chance, for the word seems to belong to a group of Germanic words including *blow and blast [OE] that seem to reflect the sounds involved. Significantly, the Middle English examples that have come down to us take the form ‘blow and bluster’.