different between gusty vs blowy

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???s.ti/

Etymology 1

From gust +? -y.

Adjective

gusty (comparative gustier, superlative gustiest)

1. (of wind) Blowing in gusts; blustery; tempestuous.
   • 1906, Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:

     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.

2. (by extension, metaphoric) Characterized by or occurring in instances of sudden strong expression
3. (metaphoric) Bombastic, verbose.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin gustus (“tasting”)

Adjective

gusty (comparative gustier, superlative gustiest)

1. With gusto

Derived terms

• gustily
• gustiness

Anagrams

• gutsy

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *g?st? (“dense”). Cognate with Upper Sorbian husty, Polish g?sty, Czech hustý, Serbo-Croatian g?st, and Russian ??????? (gustój)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ust?/

Adjective

gusty (comparative gus?ejšy, superlative nejgus?ejšy, adverb gusto)

1. thick, dense

Declension

Further reading

• gusty in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• gusty in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

English

Etymology

blow +? -y

Adjective

blowy (comparative blowier, superlative blowiest)

1. Windy or breezy.
   • 1789, John O’Keeffe, Modern Antiques; or, The Merry Mourners, Act II, Scene 3, in The Dramatic Works of John O’Keeffe, London, 1798, Volume I, p. 351,^[1]

     All my doors open! this blowy night! reminds me of the Lisbon earthquake; but my storm-cap has protected me.

   • 1910, Rudyard Kipling, “Gloriana” in Rewards and Fairies,^[2]

     […] one blowy July afternoon, as they were going up for a potato-roast, they saw somebody moving among the trees.

   • 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, “Flay Brings a Message,”

     Why can’t you stay in when the weather is muddy and blowy?

   • 2014, Guy Nowell, “RMSIR 2014 — Penang to Langkawi. An espresso race,” sail-world.com, 21 November, 2014,^[3]

     Equally almost traditional is that this is the blowiest leg of the regatta.

2. (of fabric, hair, etc.) Billowy, blowing or waving in the wind.
   • 2012, Dawn French, Oh Dear Silvia, Penguin, Chapter Sixteen,^[4]

     […] I remember now. You had the sun behind you, filtering through your amazing blowy hair, red hair […]

   • 2013, Hua Hsu, “King of Hong Kong: Johnnie To and the violent, inventive evolution of H.K. cinema,” Grantland, 17 October, 2013,^[5]

     A panoramic view of all the lives ruined by the financial markets, from the midlevel banker just trying to meet her monthly quota to the overly loyal gangster who doesn’t realize that loud, blowy Hawaiian shirts are the opposite of subtle.

3. (of soil) Susceptible to drifting.
   • 1929, U.S. Department of Agriculture Radio Service, Office of Information, Farm Science Snapshots, 19 October, 1929,^[6]

     And fall plowing except on blowy soils also will be good for the spring sown crops.

   • 1938, Angus Henry McDonald, Erosion and its Control in Oklahoma Territory, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Miscellaneous Publication No. 301, p. 17,^[7]

     Some farmers, however, quit raising cowpeas on blowy land, because they claimed it aggravated drifting.

Noun

blowy (plural blowies)

1. Alternative spelling of blowie

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