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Gustful
adj, noun
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 gusty
"[T]hey sat / Beneath a world-old yew-tree, darkening half / The cloisters, on a gustful April morn / That puff'd the swaying branches into smoke / Above them, […]"
- 2 tasty; good-tasting obsolete
"The said season being passed, there is no danger or difficulty to keep it [preserved meat] gustful all the year long."
Noun
- 1 An amount carried in a gust. uncommon
"The wind, ruffling up the lane, drove a gustful of loose sand against her like spray, and bore in the hollow boom of breaking waves, which seemed to take her breath."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From gust + -ful.
Etymology 2
From gust + -ful.
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