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Definition of Blustery
1. Adjective. Blowing in violent and abrupt bursts. "A gusty storm with strong sudden rushes of wind"
2. Adjective. Noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others.
Definition of Blustery
1. Adjective. Blowing in loud and abrupt bursts; "blustering (or blusterous) winds of Patagonia"; "a cold blustery day"; "a gusty storm with strong sudden rushes of wind" ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blustery
1. windy [adj] - See also: windy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blustery
Literary usage of Blustery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"He seems to have been of a headlong, blustery, uncertain disposition; much tossed
about in the controversies of his day. At one time he was a Protestant ..."
2. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1858)
"1568-1603. to have been of a headlong, blustery, uncertain disposition ; much
tossed about in the controversies of his day. At one time he was a Protestant ..."
3. The Principles of Judicial Proof: As Given by Logic, Psychology, and General by John Henry Wigmore (1913)
"Last night was very cold and blustery. This morning, the 7th, threatened snow.
... I think it has been as blustery an afternoon as 1 have ever witnessed. ..."
4. The Art of Writing English: A Book for College Classes by Rollo Walter Brown, Nathaniel Waring Barnes (1913)
"Study the changes that were made in the second draft of the paragraph printed
below : The day was cold and blustery. The day was cold and blustery. ..."
5. A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical by John Christopher Atkinson (1868)
"blustery, adj. Boisterously windy. Applied when the wind is very high, ...
Aye,'t's blustery. But Ah dean't think there's enew t' raffle t' thack mich;" ..."
6. A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases: Collected in Whitby and the by Francis Kildale Robinson (1855)
"... a blot, "A blurr'd name," defamed. " It left a sad blur behind it," the effect
of a fault committed. BLUSTEROUS or blustery, windy. "blustery weather. ..."
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