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blustrification

/blʌs.tɹɪf.ɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/

blustrification noun: boisterous celebration, carousal, or noisy outpouring.

Noun

blustrification (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial, dated, rare) Boisterous celebration, carousal, or noisy outpouring.
    • Cushin Cartridge, the tythe^([sic – meaning tithe])-proctor, pinshuner^([sic – meaning pensioner]), and police man, sends his love to ye, and says that your lether^([sic – meaning letter]) did put him in a big blustrification; […]1831, A Letter from Teddy Gallagher, of the County of Roscommon, to Patrick Mulligan, in Whitby: […], Whitby: R. Kirby, pages 3-4
    • Christopher Murphy arrived from Ireland on Saturday last . . . and was kicking up a devil of a blustrification, when an officious watchman somewhat damped his raptures.1839 August 5, Evening Tattler, New York, N.Y.: Wilson and Co, →OCLC, page 2, column 4; quoted in Allen Walker Read, “The First Stage in the History of "O.K."”, in American Speech, volume 38, number...

Synonyms of blustrification

Origin of blustrification

Possibly from bluster + -ification.

Questions about blustrification

What does blustrification mean?
Blustrification means boisterous celebration, carousal, or noisy outpouring.
What part of speech is blustrification?
Blustrification is a noun.
How do you pronounce blustrification?
Blustrification is pronounced /blʌs.tɹɪf.ɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/.

Words near blustrification in the dictionary

  1. blusterous
  2. blusterously
  3. blusters
  4. blustersome
  5. blustery
  6. blustrification
  7. blustrous
  8. Blusts
  9. Blutah
  10. blutcher
  11. blutchers

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