Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Stormy; gusty: as, a blasty day.
- Causing a blast or blight upon vegetation: as, “a blasty noon,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Affected by blasts; gusty.
- adjective obsolete Causing blast or injury.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Affected by
blasts ;gusty . - adjective obsolete Causing
blast orinjury .
Etymologies
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Examples
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ULFA chief's arrest subdues 'blasty' Assam atmosphere
WN.com - Articles related to People have lost faith in ULFA: Gogoi 2009
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Extrauniversal octopus minds are all grabby-blasty-tentacle, but slow to choke.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year 2 - Jonathan Strahan Blue Tyson 2008
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Tina Fey is sure to have a blasty with the continuing story (non-story?) of Sarah Palin.
Letting Sarah Palin Answer Questions Is Very, Very Dangerous 2009
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By the time The Fragile came out in 1999, my musical tastes had softened a bit, and I was no longer quite into the loud blasty stuff as much.
colin powell endorses barack obama for president jlundberg 2008
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Extrauniversal octopus minds are all grabby-blasty-tentacle, but slow to choke.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Valley Of the Gardens - Tony Daniel Blue Tyson 2007
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Extrauniversal octopus minds are all grabby-blasty-tentacle, but slow to choke.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The New Space Opera - Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan Blue Tyson 2007
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Cutting firewood was men's work in the winter, but in the summer, it was women who scoured the woods for dried alder branches and blasty boughs for cooking.
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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But in the summer and early fall, it was women who foraged in the woods for windfall branches, returning home with brin bags full of brambles and loads of bresneys and blasty boughs on their backs so large that "you just could see their feet coming along the road."
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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When said, if you've got the qualifications, it'll bring the hammer to you as well as gearing up the other lighty/explody/lightning blasty powers.
THE INCREDIBLE HULK: FUTURE IMPERFECT #1 Marvel Comics, 1993 David Campbell 2006
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Edit putting quotes around a word does not totally change its meaning, except maybe in your own mind there, blasty.
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