gusty en · ADJ · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈɡʌs.ti/ (UK)
Etymology
Etymology tree English gust Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English gusty From gust + -y.
Meanings
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Of wind: blowing in gusts; blustery; tempestuous.
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, / The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, / The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, / And the highwayman came riding— / Riding—riding— / The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.
1906 August, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 1, stanza I, page 45:
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(figuratively) Characterized by or occurring in instances of sudden strong expression.
'No, no, no,' she said. 'Who could be disloyal to you, Miss?' And then the gusty tears came.
2012, Adam Roberts, Jack Glass:A change evidently came over the countess's thoughts; her thin lips grew white (her eyes remained the same), and her voice when she spoke evidently surprised even herself by the violence of its gusty outburst.
1898, Leo Tolstoy (Nathan Haskell Dole, trans.), War and peace, page 103:The spirit becomes an ingrained part of one's life, not subject to gusty moods and feelings, but a habitual part of life.
2016, Robert Ellwood, Introducing Religion:
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(figuratively) Bombastic, verbose.
“I am a man of few words,” shouted a red-necked House member as he started his second hour of a gusty speech.
1966, Jacob Morton Braude, Speech openers and closers - Volumes 1-4, page 53:Back then, it was the conservative backlash to canon reformation that blew hot with the gusty rhetoric of politics.
2010, Henry Louis Gates, Tradition and the Black Atlantic:Kingsley came back again, Leonard countered his reply, and so it went on, with personal insults buried in paragraphs of gusty rhetoric.
2006, Victoria Glendinning, Leonard Woolf: A Biography, page 355:From the vigorous, warm, gusty oratory of the Gallican apologists, we pass into a thinner and cooler and quieter atmosphere, that of the Spanish lecture-room.
1987, Owen Chadwick, From Bossuet to Newman, page 21:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| gustier | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| gustiest | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Translations (14)
ca ratxós (of wind: blowing in gusts) · fr rafaleux (of wind: blowing in gusts) · hu viharos (of wind: blowing in gusts) · cy hyrddiog (of wind: blowing in gusts) · mi titipārera (of wind: blowing in gusts) · ru поры́вистый (of wind: blowing in gusts) · mi tītitipārerarera (of wind: blowing in gusts) · fi puuskainen (of wind: blowing in gusts) · de böig (of wind: blowing in gusts) · pl porywisty (of wind: blowing in gusts) · mi titipārerarera (of wind: blowing in gusts) · cs nárazový (of wind: blowing in gusts) · bg поривист (of wind: blowing in gusts) · ga séideánach (of wind: blowing in gusts)