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gousty, a. Sc. and north. dial.|ˈgaʊstɪ|
Also 6 gowstie, 7 goustie, 9 gowsty.
Large and empty or hollow; ‘dreary in consequence of extent or emptiness, waste, desolate’; also of sound, such as ‘is emitted from a place that is empty or hollow’ (Jam.).
Sometimes influenced in sense by association with gust (of wind), and, in later use, with ghostly.
1513Douglas æneis i. ii. 6 Quhair Eolus the kyng In gowstie cavis [L. vasto antro], the wyndis lowde quhisling..refrenis. Ibid. vi. i. 21 That feirfull gousty cave. 1681Glanvill Sadducismus ii. 295 He observed..that the black man's Voice was hough and goustie. 1721Ramsay Ode to Mr. F―, With ghaists to roam, In gloumie Pluto's gousty dome. 1721― Content 269 The architecture not so fine as good Nor scrimp nor gousty,—regular and plain. 1808Jamieson, Goustie 2, what is accounted ghostly, super⁓natural. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xiii, I would never have thought for a moment of staying in that auld gousty toom house. 1825Brockett N.C. Words, Gowsty, gowstly, ghastly, frightful. Also dismal or uncomfortable, as applied to a house without ceiling, &c. ‘What a gowsty hole he lives in.’ 1826G. Beattie John o' Arnha’ Poems 230 A gousty cawdron boil'd an' feamed. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. x. (1857) 209 The dark, gousty hay-loft into which a light was never admitted. 1875Whitby Gloss. 81 ‘A gousty spot’, said of a ruined building when the wind enters at all points.
Comb.1662in Pitcairn Crim. Trials III. 607 They [elves] speak gowstie lyk. |