blasty

Adjective

blasty (comparative blastier, superlative blastiest)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a blast or explosion.
   • 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
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
   • 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
3. (obsolete) Affected 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
   • 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
4. (obsolete) Given 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
   • 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. (archaic) Causing or displaying blast (blight) or injury
   • 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
   • 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