English

abluster

From a- + bluster.

Formed from a- + bluster

Proto-Indo-European *uds- ‘up, out’

Proto-Germanic *uz- ‘out-’

Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- ‘up, out, over’

English a-

Middle English blusteren ‘to wander about aimlessly’

Today it means

adv With bluster; loudly or ostentatiously.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / abluster