blasty

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Resembling or characteristic of a blast or explosion.

   • How could a lodger make blasty noises without a gramophone to drown his shame ... ?
   • Personally, I wouldn't have the muzzle-brake on the end of a rifle barrel—particularly not a rifle with such a blasty calibre as the .270.
   • And the kid picked out this pomegranate-colored rug with all these colorful swooshes and he called it the "blasty rug," and the mom kept pulling him over to this plain brown rug and saying, "This will match your bedspread, Henry."
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.
   • Roland's arrangement of the Ellington-Strayhorn piece captures the feeling of the original but invests it with the Kenton sound by employing the band's predictable blasty trombones and its typical screaming trumpets .
   • Not merely do the scrunching squeaks of the break, the blasty trumpet whistle , the slamming of doors , and the squalling of children bewilder his brain and bedeafen his ears, but the iron tyrant enchains and confuses his eyes .
3. 3

   Affected by blasts

   Affected by blasts; gusty.

   • 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;
   • Thus far we have come through the winter, on this bleak and blasty shore of the Irish Sea, where, perhaps, the drowned body of Milton's friend Lycidas might have been washed ashore more than two centuries ago.
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   1. 4

      Given to outbursts

      Given to outbursts; blustery.

      • 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. "
   2. 5

      Causing or displaying blast (blight) or injury

      • The floor, the pews, the stripped-bare altar are strewn with leaves, twigs, orange needles from the blasty boughs of spruce trees.
      • The Yearling took in soprano Dolores Wilson, leprechaun David Wayne, and some blasty kids.

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