blustery

adj

1. Blowing in loud and abrupt bursts.

   “Currently, there are blustery winds blowing in Patagonia.”

   “Fortunately, that May morning was bright and sunny; the breeze blew warm from the southland instead of cold and blustery from the lake, and it was the very best kind of a morning possible for being out of doors.”

   “He wished fleetingly that he could once more be out in the open, as when he was a boy—never in the house, but the sound of the blustery wind frightened him.”

2. Accompanied by strong wind.

   “Today is such a cold blustery day!”

   “[…] blustery winters with little snow, when the whole country is stripped bare and gray as sheet-iron.”

   “In the small hours of a blustery October morning in a south Devon coastal town that seemed to have been deserted by its inhabitants, Magnus Pym got out of his elderly country taxicab and, having paid the driver and waited till he had left, struck out across the church square.”

   “The drizzle became blustery rain as she approached Curracloe.”

3. Pompous or arrogant, especially in one's speech; given to outbursts.

   “Duke Wilhelm […] seems to have been of a headlong, blustery, uncertain disposition; much tossed about in the controversies of his day.”

   “He talks in a rather loud, blustery way and has a nervous, irritable manner.”

   “Uncle Miles wished only to dodge the issue that had hurled them apart, offering an effusive and blustery hospitality as an alternative to the air-clearing discussion which the situation so urgently called for.”

   “Vayu was a large, strong, blustery character, full of drive and energy but mercurial in temperament.”

   “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continued this week to use a blustery “we will go it alone if we must” rhetoric publicly.”