/ˈɡʌs.ti/
- Of wind: blowing in gusts; blustery; tempestuous.
“The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, / The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, / The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, / And the highwayman came”
- figurativelyCharacterized 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 ”
“'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.”
- figurativelyBombastic, 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.”
- 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 pla”
Formsgustier(comparative) · gustiest(superlative)