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blustery, a.|ˈblʌstərɪ| Also blustry. [f. bluster n. + -y1.] 1. Boisterously blowing.
1774P. V. Fithian Jrnl. (1900) 105 The day very blustry & cold. 1804Jago Beauties Eng. Poetry I. 120 The blustry tempest and the chilling snow. 1874Aldrich Prud. Palfr. xvii, It was a blustery, frosty morning. 2. fig. Stormy, noisily self-assertive, swaggering.
1739G. Ogle Gualth. & Gris. L'Envoy l. 2468 Why, to his blustry Oath, such Def'rence paid? 1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. v. 41. 1858 ― Fredk. Gt. iii. xii. I. 211 He seems to have been of a headlong, blustery, uncertain disposition. Ibid. xii. x. IV. 236 The once very haughty, blustery, and now much-humiliated man. |