Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"making a sullen roar" (as the wind does), Northern England dialectal variant of Scottish and dialectal whithering "rushing, whizzing, blustering," from a verb whither (late 14c.) which was used in reference to gusts of wind and coughing fits, from Old Norse *hviðra (related to Norwegian kvidra "to go quickly to and fro," Old English hwiþa "air, breeze").\n\nWuthering Heights is the name of Mr. Heathcliff's dwelling. 'Wuthering' being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed, in stormy weather.
[Emily Brontë, "Wuthering Heights," 1847]
\nCharlotte also used forms of the word in her novels.Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of wuther English)
Usage examples of "wuthering".
Her silver hair was frozen into a photographed stormtossed effect, clicked into sempiternal tempestuousness on a Wuthering Heights of the American imagination.
What with them and the wind this accouchement might be taking place in Wuthering Heights!
Trent's Last Case Bierce, Ambrose An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Devil's Dictionary Moonlit Road Moxon's Master Blackwood, Algernon Man Whom the Trees Loved Wendigo Willows Blasco Ibañez, Vicente Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Braddon, Mary Elizabeth Lady Audley's Secret Brand, Max Night Horseman Seventh Man Untamed Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights Buchan, John Prester John Thirty-Nine Steps Bunin, Ivan Gentleman from San Francisco Burroughs, Edgar Rice At the Earth's Core Pellucidar Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Tarzan of the Apes Cabell, James Branch Domnei Jurgen Cather, Willa My Antonia Chambers, Robert W.
But even so, when the school bell rang at three o'clock these afternoons the passionate few--all girls--stayed behind to hear adorable Miss Galtzer read another chapter of Wuthering Heights.