Blasty

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or characteristic of a blast or explosion.

    "How could a lodger make blasty noises without a gramophone to drown his shame ... ?"

  2. 2
    Extremely loud.

    "The recording is for the most part clean and bright, with only an occasional blasty forte marring the otherwise excellent sound."

  3. 3
    Affected by blasts; gusty. obsolete

    "Thus passed the first afternoon of my retour by the Mountaineer, and the next day being blasty and bleak, nobody was in a humour either to tell or to hear stories;"

  4. 4
    Given to outbursts; blustery. obsolete

    "I told him it was not, and then he said, "Pooh, pooh, Carey; you know what a windy, blasty fellow Chisholm is , and it is not worth while to take any more notice of it, or say anything about it. ""

  5. 5
    Causing or displaying blast (blight) or injury archaic

    "The floor, the pews, the stripped-bare altar are strewn with leaves, twigs, orange needles from the blasty boughs of spruce trees."

Etymology

From blast + -y.

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