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blashy

blashy adjective: rainy and windy.

Adjective

blashy (comparative blashier, superlative blashiest)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) Rainy 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
    • "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 England, Scotland) Wet, splashy; muddy.
    • ... 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
    • 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
  3. (Northern England, Scotland) Watery.

Forms of blashy

comparativeblashier
superlativeblashiest

Origin of blashy

From blash (“heavy rainfall”) + -y.

Questions about blashy

What does blashy mean?
Blashy means rainy and windy.
What part of speech is blashy?
Blashy is an adjective.

Words near blashy in the dictionary

  1. blashier
  2. blashiest
  3. Blashill
  4. Blashills
  5. blashing
  6. blashy
  7. Blasi
  8. blasian
  9. blasians
  10. Blasingame
  11. Blasingames

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