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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



... Tuesday, March thirteenth, three days after our arrival at Karwalla, that Mark thought himself quite able to proceed. The brief "mild" gave place to intense cold and blustery, snowy weather. We pushed on toward West Bay, on the outer coast again, by the "Backway," an arm of Hamilton Inlet that extends almost ...
— The Long Labrador Trail • Dillon Wallace

... to the Crow Hill school on a blustery March day of the sort that blows off hats and tries the tempers of the sweetest natured people. Amanda thought she never before lived through hours so long as those in which she waited for the visitors. But at length came the children's subdued, excited announcement, "Here they come!" ...
— Amanda - A Daughter of the Mennonites • Anna Balmer Myers

... hard-headed longshoremen and sailors who lived at the foot of the hill were a practical people, to whom spirits were something mostly and generally put up in bottles, and emptied on sunless, blustery days. Still, they wouldn't have been human if they had not done ...
— A Splendid Hazard • Harold MacGrath



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



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