gusty

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of wind

   Of wind: blowing in gusts; blustery; tempestuous.

2. 2

   Characterized by or occurring in instances of sudden strong expression.

   • A change evidently came over the countess's thoughts; her thin lips grew white (her eyes remained the same), and her voice when she spoke evidently surprised even herself by the violence of its gusty outburst.
   • 'No, no, no,' she said. 'Who could be disloyal to you, Miss?' And then the gusty tears came.
   • The spirit becomes an ingrained part of one's life, not subject to gusty moods and feelings, but a habitual part of life.
3. 3

   Bombastic, verbose.

   • “I am a man of few words,” shouted a red-necked House member as he started his second hour of a gusty speech.
   • From the vigorous, warm, gusty oratory of the Gallican apologists, we pass into a thinner and cooler and quieter atmosphere, that of the Spanish lecture-room.
   • Kingsley came back again, Leonard countered his reply, and so it went on, with personal insults buried in paragraphs of gusty rhetoric.
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   1. 4

      With gusto.

      • His lips, warm with his words, caught hers in a gusty kiss.
      • I give her a gusty wink.
      • The prime aim of the Bondo dormitory is selection of marriage partners and they are free to have sexual experiences, but not, of course, intercourse, which the boys call with a gusty smile "breast play".

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