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Gusty   /gˈəsti/   Listen
Gusty

adjective
1.
Blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts.  Synonym: puffy.  "Gusty winds "






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"Gusty" Quotes from Famous Books



... out-spread world to span A cord the Gods first slung, And then the soul of man There, like a mirror, hung, And bade the winds through space impel the gusty toy ...
— Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold

... skillfully kindled a cigarette in the spurt of a match, which the gusty sea-breeze ...
— The Lighted Match • Charles Neville Buck

... in a pale, straight streak, narrowing to a mere thread at the limit of vision—the only living thing in the wild darkness. All was very still. It had been raining; the wet heather and the pines gave forth scent, and little gusty shivers shook the dripping birch trees. In the pools of sky, between broken clouds, a few stars shone, and half of a thin moon was seen from time to time, like the fragment of a silver horn held up there in an invisible hand, waiting ...
— Another Sheaf • John Galsworthy

... gusty sigh. "You all think a heap of Gussie, don't you?" he asked with a jealous pang, for he found it almost impossible to get a quiet word with that busy and important member of the household, and now that winter was coming on, it would be harder than ...
— Heart of Gold • Ruth Alberta Brown

... raw and gusty day, The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores, etc. * * * * * —Caesar cried, Help me, Cassius, or I sink. —And this man Is now become a god, and Cassius is A wretched creature, and must bend his body, If Caesar carelessly ...
— The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded • Delia Bacon


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