Crossword clues for blustery
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1707, from bluster (n.) + -y (2). Blustering in this sense is recorded from 1510s.
Wiktionary
a. 1 blowing in loud and abrupt bursts 2 A gusty storm with strong sudden rushes of wind.
WordNet
adj. blowing in loud and abrupt bursts; "blustering (or blusterous) winds of Patagonia"; "a cold blustery day"; "a gusty storm with strong sudden rushes of wind" [syn: blustering(a), blusterous, gusty]
noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others [syn: bullying]
Usage examples of "blustery".
At last, he turned back to the magnate, who had been a firm supporter of his rule since that blustery day in Sagun-tum nine years before.
On blustery days a small triangular sail could be spread from the forepost to aid the rowers.
She took Peter into the storeroom on a blustery afternoon and pointed out the mislabeled crates.
Although a blustery wind sent moon-silvered ripples across the ink-dark pond and rattled the nearby cornstalks, the sails were still.
From the dining hall Oscaras and a handful of men and women, phasers drawn, stepped into the blustery night.
Artus Cimber tumbled through the thorny branches, recently laid bare by the first blustery days of winter.
Certainly I had suffered worse treatment than the blustery insults, and this desperate band, with the exception of Rico, seemed pleased enough to have found any ally, regardless of the color of my skin.
Knowing it was a subtle hint for her to also protect herself from the blustery wind, Jenna picked up the worn blanket from the chair and left the two of them to their grisly work.
Piggy was gasping, his face bright with sweat, but he kept up his blustery front.
Quite close inshore was the yacht, just ahead of her, bowling merrily along--much too fast, she thought--before the blustery wind, and she could see Willy quite clearly in it.
The weather turned sour, and it was blustery and rainy for the next two days as the Seagull doggedly pushed her way west.
The ragged beggar said in a tentative sort of voice as Veltan of the South passed him on a quiet street near the forum of the Trogite city of Kaldacin on a blustery winter morning.
Kweta at first light on a blustery winter morning, and once they were at sea, the wind seemed almost to die.
She sighed, wishing for the bright blustery moors and the cool clear burns of Scotland where she had spent her childhood, wishing she was anywhere but here in London on this stifling late May morning of 1810.
It had been one of those bright blustery m9rnings and the breeze had come buffeting in from the North Sea, sending the ends of the rich blue shawl fluttering against a wind-scorched rosebush.