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#887. Blusterer.
— N. blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, roisterer[obs3],
brawler; fanfaron[obs3]; braggart &c. (boaster) 884;
bully, terrorist, rough; bulldozer [U. S.], hoodlum,
hooligan*, larrikin[obs3], roarer*; Mohock, Mohawk;
drawcansir[obs3], swashbuckler, Captain Bobadil, Sir
Lucius O’Trigger, Thraso, Pistol, Parolles,
Bombastes Furioso[obs3], Hector, Chrononhotonthologos[obs3];
jingo; desperado, dare-devil, fire eater; fury, &c.
(violent person) 173; rowdy; slang-whanger*[obs3],
tough [U. S.].
puppy &c. (fop) 854;
prig; Sir Oracle, dogmatist, doctrinaire, jack-
in-office; saucebox[obs3], malapert, jackanapes, minx;
bantam-cock.
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SECTION
III. SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS
1. SOCIAL AFFECTIONS %
#888. Friendship.—
N. friendship, amity; friendliness &c. adj.;
brotherhood, fraternity, sodality, confraternity;
harmony &c. (concord) 714; peace &c. 721.
firm friendship, staunch
friendship, intimate friendship, familiar
friendship, bosom friendship, cordial friendship,
tried friendship, devoted friendship, lasting friendship,
fast friendship, sincere friendship, warm friendship,
ardent friendship.
cordiality, fraternization,
entente cordiale[Fr], good understanding,
rapprochement, sympathy, fellow-feeling, response,
welcomeness.
affection &c. (love)
897; favoritism; good will &c. (benevolence) 906.
acquaintance, familiarity,
intimacy, intercourse, fellowship,
knowledge of; introduction.
V. be friendly &c. adj.,
be friends &c. 890, be acquainted with &c.
adj.; know; have the ear of; keep company with &c.(sociality)
892; hold communication with, have dealings with,
sympathize with; have a leaning to; bear good will
&c. (benevolent) 906; love &c. 897; make much of; befriend
&c. (aid) 707; introduce to. set one’s horses
together; have the latchstring out [U. S.]; hold
out the right hand of friendship, extend the right
hand of friendship, hold out the right hand of fellowship;
become friendly &c. adj.; make friends &c. 890 with;
break the lee, be introduced to; make acquaintance
with, pick acquaintance with, scrape acquaintance
with; get into favor, gain the friendship of.
shake hands with, fraternize,
embrace; receive with open arms, throw
oneself into the arms of; meet halfway, take in good
part.
Adj. friendly; amicable,
amical[obs3]; well-affected, unhostile[obs3],
neighborly, brotherly, fraternal, sympathetic, harmonious,
hearty, cordial, warm-hearted.
friends with, well with,
at home with, hand in hand with; on good
terms, on friendly terms, on amicable terms, on cordial
terms, on familiar terms, on intimate terms, on good
footing; on speaking terms, on visiting terms; in
one’s good graces, in one’s good books.
acquainted, familiar,
intimate, thick, hand and glove, hail fellow
well met, free and easy; welcome.
Adv. amicably &c. adj.;
with open arms; sans ceremonie[Fr]; arm in
arm.
Phr. amicitia semper
prodest [Lat][Seneca]; “a mystic bond of
brotherhood makes all men one” [Carlyle]; “friendship
is love without either flowers or veil” [Hare];
trulgus amicitias utilitate probat [Lat][Ovid].


