blasty

comparative blastier · superlative blastiest

1. Resembling or characteristic of a blast or explosion.

   "Why don't I get a cool blasty thing?” Alex demanded.

   2020, AJ Hartley, The Mirrors Shattered: Beyond the Mirror

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   How could a lodger make blasty noises without a gramophone to drown his shame ... ?

   1933, The Unenchanted Circle, page 224

   Personally, I wouldn't have the muzzle-brake on the end of a rifle barrel—particularly not a rifle with such a blasty calibre as the .270.

   1946, Field and Stream - Volume 51, page 157

   And the kid picked out this pomegranate-colored rug with all these colorful swooshes and he called it the "blasty rug," and the mom kept pulling him over to this plain brown rug and saying, "This will match your bedspread, Henry."

   2012, Mary Amato, Guitar Notes

2. Extremely loud.

   The recording is for the most part clean and bright, with only an occasional blasty forte marring the otherwise excellent sound.

   1943, Steinway Review of Permanent Music - Volumes 3-10

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   Roland's arrangement of the Ellington-Strayhorn piece captures the feeling of the original but invests it with the Kenton sound by employing the band's predictable blasty trombones and its typical screaming trumpets .

   1996, Dave Oliphant, Texan Jazz, page 284

   Not merely do the scrunching squeaks of the break, the blasty trumpet whistle , the slamming of doors , and the squalling of children bewilder his brain and bedeafen his ears, but the iron tyrant enchains and confuses his eyes .

   2003, Henry Murray, Lands of the Slave and the Free, page 259

3. obsoleteAffected by blasts; gusty.

   Thus passed the first afternoon of my retour by the Mountaineer, and the next day being blasty and bleak, nobody was in a humour either to tell or to hear stories;

   1821 December, “The Steam-Boatauthor=”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 10, number 54, page 661

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   In the morning the weather was blasty and sleety , waxing more and more tempestuous, till about mid-day, when the wind checked suddenly round from the nor-east to the sou-west, and blew a gale, as if the prince of the powers of the air was doing his utmost to work mischief.

   1823 August 2, “The Windy Yule”, in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, number 41, page 172

   Thus far we have come through the winter, on this bleak and blasty shore of the Irish Sea, where, perhaps, the drowned body of Milton's friend Lycidas might have been washed ashore more than two centuries ago.

   1898, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home: And English Note-books - Volume 2, page 385

   The day after we reached hom was very fine, and we were out with the children as long as the sun shone; but the next morning Dorothy roused me from my sleep with "Aunt! it is time to get up, it is a blasty morning — it does blast so!" and the next morning with "It is a haily morning — it hails so hard! " And this blasty and haily and snowy weather continued till last Friday, and during the first three or four days I was half killed by it; and I thought our house, with its plastered walls, half-carpeted floors, and half-furnished rooms, the coldest place in the world.

   1907, Dorothy Wordsworth, edited by William Knight, Letters of the Wordsworth Family from 1787 to 1855, page 505

4. obsoleteGiven to outbursts; blustery.

   I told him it was not, and then he said, "Pooh, pooh, Carey; you know what a windy, blasty fellow Chisholm is , and it is not worth while to take any more notice of it, or say anything about it. "

   1884, Marcus Joseph Wright, Some Account of the Life and Services of William Blount, page 71

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   Once I had a temper cheerful, and my home was full of peace, and you heard no wailing tearful from my wife or aunt or niece; but for months I've been as nasty as a bear with festered dome, and I said things blanky- blasty when I had to write a pome.

   1921, Oral Hygiene - Volume 11, page 1473

5. archaicCausing or displaying blast (blight) or injury

   The Yearling took in soprano Dolores Wilson, leprechaun David Wayne, and some blasty kids.

   2015, Ethan Mordden, Open a New Window: The Broadway Musical in the 1960s

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   The floor, the pews, the stripped-bare altar are strewn with leaves, twigs, orange needles from the blasty boughs of spruce trees.

   2010, Wayne Johnston, Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir