bluster

verb bluster

• bulldoze — If people bulldoze something such as a building, they knock it down using a bulldozer.
• hector — Classical Mythology. the eldest son of Priam and husband of Andromache: the greatest Trojan hero in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles.
• swagger — to walk or strut with a defiant or insolent air.
• yap — to bark sharply, shrilly, or snappishly; yelp.
• gloat — to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction: The opposing team gloated over our bad luck.