blazey

comparative more blazey · superlative most blazey

1. alternativeAlternative form of blazy.

   You and the blazey-eyed girl disturb our land, said Charlie assuming his new rubber face.

   (Can we date this quote?), Blood, number 1, page 41

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   “Haven’t we made a blazey fire, Aunt Emma?” said Olly, out of breath with dragging up sticks, and standing still to look.

   1881, Mrs. T[homas] H[umphry] Ward [i.e., Mary Augusta Ward], “Aunt Emma’s Picnic”, in Milly and Olly or A Holiday among the Mountains, London: Macmillan and Co., page 94

   I may here mention that the “counsellor” adopted an excellent plan with the smith’s fires: by mixing Irish peat or turf from the “Bog of Allen” with the “blazey” Liverpool coal, coking the mixture in kilns constructed for the purpose.

   1886 November 24, R. J. Lecky, “Heating Water Rapidly”, in English Mechanic and World of Science. […], volume XLIV, number 1,132, London: […] ([F]or the Proprietor) by E[beneezer] J. Kibblewhite, […], published 3 December 1886, republished 1887, page 303, column 1

   If you want to be counted any punkins here you’ve got to put on what they call a blazey air, and don’t let anybody sell you.

   1915, George B. Somerville, The Boardwalk Love Letters of Hiram and Ella, Atlantic City, N.J.: Boardwalk Publishing Company, page 48

   woody ((([…] we see anny grab a pound of oleo up in her hands and run down path to where woody rolls on dampish grassy ground to try to put blazey fire out that crawls up and down his arm from his shoulder on down to his fingers))((to anny)) […]

   1953, Joe Klein, quoting Skybally by Woody Guthrie, “Jesus My Doctor”, in Woody Guthrie: A Life, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, published 1980, →ISBN, pages 400–401

   Only by diggit deep and thorough can we get to the fundermold of how the laser bringit forth and flashy on the beam of light. Oh, the blazey beam, so parallel and powerfold, stretchit up to the moom and back if necessole, and all coherem the little waves up and down and steppit together, oh yes!

   1963, David Wilson, “The best picket on the laser mold . . .”, in R & D., numbers 17–22, British Aviation Publications, page 74, column 2