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Blustery   /blˈəstəri/   Listen
Blustery

adjective
1.
Blowing in violent and abrupt bursts.  Synonyms: blustering, blusterous.  "A cold blustery day" , "A gusty storm with strong sudden rushes of wind"
2.
Noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others.  Synonym: bullying.






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"Blustery" Quotes from Famous Books



... 'keeps silently a most exact Savings-bank, and official register correct to the most evanescent item, Debtor and Creditor, in respect to one and all of us; silently marks down, Creditor by such and such an unseen act of veracity and heroism; Debtor to such a loud blustery blunder, twenty-seven million strong or one unit strong, and to all acts and words and thoughts executed in consequence of that—Debtor, Debtor, Debtor, day after day, rigorously as Fate (for this is Fate that ...
— Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I - Essay 2: Carlyle • John Morley

... of a blustery March night. Mulligan was not my driver on the trip, but Casey, who had been imbibing rather freely at the corner place of refreshment during the wait. Empty we left the starting point under the 'L. curve on South Fifth Avenue. Empty we crossed the Square. ...
— Fifth Avenue • Arthur Bartlett Maurice



Words linked to "Blustery" :   domineering, stormy, bluster, blusterous



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