blashy
blashy adjective: rainy and windy.
Adjective
blashy (comparative blashier, superlative blashiest)
- 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
- 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
- Watery.
Forms of blashy
| comparative | blashier |
|---|---|
| superlative | blashiest |
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
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