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▪ I. gusty, a.1|ˈgʌstɪ|
[f. gust n.1 + -y.]
1. Of wind: Blowing in gusts or sudden violent blasts. Of weather, etc.: Marked by gusts or squalls of wind; fitfully windy or stormy.
1600Hakluyt Voy. III. 845 Wee had great store of snowe, with some gustie weather. 1602Marston Ant. & Mel. i. Wks. 1856 I. 16 Gustie flawes strook up the very heeles Of our maine mast. 1798Southey Ld. William Poems VI. 35 The tempest, as its sudden swell, In gusty howlings came. 1819Crabbe T. of Hall iv. Wks. 1834 VI. 83 One gusty day, now stormy and now still. 1833H. Martineau Loom & Lugger i. v. 91 You have no chance out of doors on a gusty night. 1891E. Peacock N. Brendon II. 2 The gusty rain dashed fiercely at intervals on the window panes.
b. Of physical features and other objects: Blown upon, tossed, or disturbed by gusts of wind.
1725Pope Odyss. xix. 217 From Malea's gusty cape his navy drove To bright Lucina's fane. 1818Keats Endym. ii. 853 The gusty deep. 1820― Eve St. Agnes xl, The long carpets rose along the gusty floor. 1832Tennyson Mariana 52 In the white curtain, to and fro, She saw the gusty shadow sway. 1852M. Arnold Empedocles i. ii, The gods..bade the winds through space impel the gusty toy.
c. Emitting air or wind in gusts.
1832Blackw. Mag. XXXI. 321 Their gusty nostrils blew Steams of thick vapour. 1844L. Hunt Poems 162 Ever and anon there roll'd The gusty organ.
2. fig. Given to or marked by sudden bursts of feeling or fitful action; (of action, etc.) coming in fits or bursts.
1690Norris Beatitudes (1694) I. 232 In a warm gusty fit of Devotion. 1855Longfellow Hiaw. ii. 221 Hearing still the gusty laughter. 1862Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) III. xxiii. 77 As an experienced officer he knew the gusty passions of the veterans. 1870Thornbury Tour Eng. II. xx. 61 The quarrelsome Montagues and Capulets of those gusty days. 1870R. W. Dale Week-day Serm. viii. 155 The gusty temper of the disputants. 1871R. Ellis Catullus xliv. 13 Whereat a cold chill, soon a gusty cough in fits Shook, shook me ever.
▪ II. gusty, a.2 Chiefly Sc.|ˈgʌstɪ|
[f. gust n.2 + -y.]
Tasty, savoury, appetizing.
1721Ramsay Prospect Plenty 67 The rantin Germans, Russians, and the Poles, Shall feast with pleasure on our gusty sholes. 1786Burns Sc. Drink ix, Just a wee drap sp'ritual burn in, An' gusty sucker. 1802Lamb J. Woodvil iii, These high and gusty relishes of life. 1854Fraser's Mag. XLIX. 105 ‘Cock-a-leekie’, one of the most gusty of Scotch dishes. |