a. Also blustry. [f. BLUSTER sb. + -Y1.]
1. Boisterously blowing.
1804. Jago, Beauties Eng. Poetry, I. 120. The blustry tempest and the chilling snow.
1874. Aldrich, Prud. Palfr., xvii. It was a blustery, frosty morning.
2. fig. Stormy, noisily self-assertive, swaggering.
1850. Carlyle, Latter-d. Pamph., V. 44. Debtor to such a loud blustery blunder. Ibid. (1858), Fredk. Gt., II. xii. I. 211. He seems to have been of a headlong, blustery, uncertain disposition. Ibid., XII. x. IV. 236. The once very haughty, blustery, and now much-humiliated man.
