beasterly

comparative more beasterly · superlative most beasterly

1. colloquialOf the wind: cold, unpleasant, and from the east.

   The wind is easterly, The weather is beasterly.

   1936, Philological Papers - Volumes 1-3, page 68

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   Yesterday I completed, with Emily's assistance (which nearly drove me mad) that packing of the great huge chest of books, boxes, etc., and she and I walked together, but it was bitter cold and ungenial, regular beasterly wind.

   1882, Fanny Kemble, Records of Later Life - Volume 2, page 288

   The ordinary English bee is generally tolerably well-behaved, but not always so, and is occasionally perfectly furious, especially if the wind is "beasterly."

   1886, The Gardeners' Monthly and Horticulturist - Volume 28, page 345

   I'm afeard 'tis a horrid beasterly wind, father.

   1898, Religious Tract Society (Great Britain), The Sunday at Home - Volume 46, page 603

   Landsmen can seldom tell you the direction of the wind, unless it happens to be easterly and beasterly, neither is it any longer a matter of vital importance to seamen.

   1953, Basil Lubbock, The Last of the Windjammers - Volume 2, page 213