blashy

comparative blashier · superlative blashiest

1. Northern EnglandScotlandRainy and windy.

   ... a cold blashy rain is driven from the spongy west by a wind that would certainly blow you away, […]

   1845, Thomas Aird, The Old Bachelor in the Old Scottish Village. [Essays and Sketches.], page 38

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   "Mr dowse, what's your opinion o' this blashy weather? Will it blow over, do y' think?" Dowse pursed his lips and studied the racing clouds. […] "the wind's still in the sou'-west. Could be it gets worse afore it gets better."

   2008 October 1, Julian Stockwin, Admiral's Daughter, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 249

2. Northern EnglandScotlandWet, splashy; muddy.

   It's blashy deed, gannan' alang t' rooads, sike weather.

   1868, John Christopher Atkinson, A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical, page 50

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   ... their streets are like wors - brave and blashy! Song, Canny Nerocassel.

   1825, John Trotter Brockett, A Glossary of North Country Words, in Use: From an Original Manuscript, in the Library of John George Lambton, Esq., M. P., with Considerable Additions, page 18

   .[The] road fra Gunnas to Burringham's blashier noo then ever I seed it.

   1877, Edward Peacock, A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham, Lincolnshire, page 27

   tharrs sa mitch rain o' t' Fog, [...] it maks it blashy as weel, [...]

   1882, Joseph Lucas (F.G.S.), Studies in Nidderdale, page 33

3. Northern EnglandScotlandWatery.