weathery

Adjective

weathery (comparative more weathery, superlative most weathery)

1. Accompanied by or featuring wind and/or precipitation.
   • In weathery days, when near, I loot thee in;1857, John Johnstone, “Nicky’s Lament”, in Poems on Various Subjects, Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, page 114
   • Weather often means bad weather, a rain or snow storm: […] one may hear: “There’s no need of you goin’ out, it’s so weathery.”1960, Joseph Sargent Hall, Smoky Mountain Folks and their Lore, Asheville, NC: The Cataloochee Press, Great Smoky Mountains Natural History Association, Chapter 10, p. 67

   Synonyms:

   stormy, windy

2. Worn or otherwise affected by weather; (of a person's features or body) showing signs of age or wear.
   • […] Bill slapped with all his might and main, on his leather old weathery cheek, enough to break his jaw.1897, Frederick C. Emberson, chapter 2, in The Yarn of the Love Sick Parsee, Montreal: W. Drysdale, page 18
   • It was a cluster of two-room cottages with weathery wood shingles in an oak forest,1968, Tom Wolfe, chapter 4, in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →OCLC, page 36

   Synonyms:

   weathered

3. Subject to frequent changes (of direction or fortune, for example).
   • In so desultory and―as one intelligent street-seller with whom I conversed on the subject described it―so weathery a trade, it is difficult to arrive at exact statistics.1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, G. Woodfall and Son, page 304
   • the flitting fancy of a boy and girl, who pop upon one another, and skip through zig-zag vernal ecstasy, like the weathery dalliance of gnats1880, R. D. Blackmore, chapter 5, in Mary Anerley, volume 2, London: Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, pages 81–82

   Synonyms:

   changeable, unpredictable, variable, volatile

4. Lacking in flavour as a result of the leaves having been harvested during mid-season rains. (of tea)
   • The Ningchows are tarry, burnt, mouldy or weathery.1885 July 1, “The China Tea Trade”, in The Tropical Agriculturalist, page 48
   • Even at high elevations, if the season is exceptionally wet, the teas are thin and uninteresting. They are called “weathery.”1961, Lendal Kotschevar, Quantity Food Purchasing, New York: Wiley, page 322