Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To exceed in blustering; get the better of by blustering; oust or deprive by means of blustering.
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Examples
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If ever I lead a rebellion, and my women betray me, may I be hanged but I will not forgive them: and if ever I steal a teapot, and MY women don't stand up for me, pass the article under their shawls, whisk down the street with it, outbluster the policeman, and utter any amount of fibs before Mr. Beak, those beings are not what I take them to be, and -- for a fortune -- I won't give them so much as a bad half-crown.
Roundabout Papers William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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