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gosling blast en · NOUN
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(UK, dialectal, uncommon) A transitory storm; a brief squall of rain or sleet.
A 'gosling blast' might herald an April shower. - A. F.
1970, The Countryman: A Quarterly Review and Miscellany of Rural Life and Progress, page 392:the clouds begon to gloom and lower, Big drops o' rain fell thick and fast; I sed, sez I, "'twill soön be ower, It's nobbut but a gosling blast."
1890, John Brown, Literae Laureatae: Or, A Selection from the Poetical Writings in Lincolnshire Language, page 56:
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