outˈbluster, v.
[out- 16, 18 b, c.]
1. trans. To drive or do out of by blustering.
| 1748 Richardson Clarissa (1811) II. 15 Those wives..can suffer themselves to be out-blustered and out-gloomed of their own wills, instead of being fooled out of them by acts of tenderness and complaisance. |
2. To outdo in blustering, to get the better of by bluster.
| a 1863 Thackeray Round. Papers, Medal Geo. IV (1869) 358 If ever I steal a teapot, and my women don't stand up for me..outbluster the policeman, and utter any amount of fibs before Mr. Beak, those beings are not what I take them to be. 1878 J. Inglis Sport & Work xiii. 146 A man..in fierce altercation with another, who tries his utmost to outbluster his furious declamation. |