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blirt

blirt noun: a gust, as of wind and rain.

Noun

blirt (plural blirts)

  1. A gust, as of wind and rain.
    • […] and farther on he asks if the poet's resolve shall be
      Struck through with the blirt
      Of a goose breath?1607, Marston, "What You Will", introduction; quoted in 1886, Alden's Cyclopedia of Universal Literature, page 98
    • [page 49:] The blirt was moving in, windy and wet. Somewhere out around the Forge Town headland, lightning broke over the Amnion and rain began to fall.
    • [page 122:] Cobbles of the traffic circus before the barbican were dry after the blirt rain, but blood smeared the stones or was draining away into the seams […]1999, Brian Daley, To Waters' End: Book Four of GammaLAW, Lucia St. Clair Robson, →ISBN
  2. (Scotland) A fit of crying.

Verb

blirt (third-person singular simple present blirts, present participle blirting, simple past and past participle blirted)

  1. (Scotland) To burst into tears.

Forms of blirt

Noun
pluralblirts
Verb
third-person singular presentblirts
present participleblirting
past participleblirted
pastblirted

Origin of blirt

From a variation of blurt.

Words formed from blirt

Questions about blirt

What does blirt mean?
Blirt means a gust, as of wind and rain.
What part of speech is blirt?
Blirt can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of blirt?
The plural of blirt is blirts.

Words near blirt in the dictionary

  1. blips out
  2. blipster
  3. blipsters
  4. blipvert
  5. blipverts
  6. blirt
  7. blirts
  8. blirty
  9. BLIS
  10. Blish
  11. Blishen

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