# gusty
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈɡʌs.ti/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Etymology 1

From gust +‎ -y.

#### Adjective

gusty (comparative gustier, superlative gustiest)
* Of wind: blowing in gusts; blustery; tempestuous.
** 1906 August, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 1, stanza I, page 45:The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, / The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, / The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, / And the highwayman came riding— / Riding—riding— / The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.
* (figuratively) Characterized by or occurring in instances of sudden strong expression.
** 1898, Leo Tolstoy (Nathan Haskell Dole, trans.), War and peace, page 103:A change evidently came over the countess's thoughts; her thin lips grew white (her eyes remained the same), and her voice when she spoke evidently surprised even herself by the violence of its gusty outburst.
** 2012, Adam Roberts, Jack Glass:'No, no, no,' she said. 'Who could be disloyal to you, Miss?' And then the gusty tears came.
** 2016, Robert Ellwood, Introducing Religion:The spirit becomes an ingrained part of one's life, not subject to gusty moods and feelings, but a habitual part of life.
* (figuratively) Bombastic, verbose.
** 1966, Jacob Morton Braude, Speech openers and closers - Volumes 1-4, page 53:“I am a man of few words,” shouted a red-necked House member as he started his second hour of a gusty speech.
** 1987, Owen Chadwick, From Bossuet to Newman, page 21:From the vigorous, warm, gusty oratory of the Gallican apologists, we pass into a thinner and cooler and quieter atmosphere, that of the Spanish lecture-room.
** 2006, Victoria Glendinning, Leonard Woolf: A Biography, page 355:Kingsley came back again, Leonard countered his reply, and so it went on, with personal insults buried in paragraphs of gusty rhetoric.
** 2010, Henry Louis Gates, Tradition and the Black Atlantic:Back then, it was the conservative backlash to canon reformation that blew hot with the gusty rhetoric of politics.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Latin gustus (“tasting”).

#### Adjective

gusty (comparative gustier, superlative gustiest)
* With gusto
** 1917, The Green Book Magazine - Volume 18, page 486:His lips, warm with his words, caught hers in a gusty kiss.
** 2004, John Cottle, The Blessings of Hard-used Angels, page 152:I give her a gusty wink.
** 2007, Prakash Chandra Mehta, Sonu Mehta, Cultural Heritage of Indian Tribes, page 31:The prime aim of the Bondo dormitory is selection of marriage partners and they are free to have sexual experiences, but not, of course, intercourse, which the boys call with a gusty smile "breast play".
** 2009, Deni Bash Hoffman, All's Fair in Love and Mystery, page 48:She laughed, a gusty laugh, one that lit up her entire face and told you that she found fun in most situations.
** 2012, Irene Hope-Hedrick, 'Twill Be All Right Come Mornin', Luv, page 32:And so did his lordship as he stood and praised her performance, his beard scratching a gusty kiss on her cheek while handing her the winners' trophy in our behalf.

### Derived terms

* gustily
* gustiness

### Anagrams

* gutsy

## Lower Sorbian
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gǫstъ (“dense”). Cognate with Upper Sorbian husty, Polish gęsty, Czech hustý, Serbo-Croatian gȗst, and Russian густо́й (gustój).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡustɨ/

### Adjective

gusty (comparative gusćejšy, superlative nejgusćejšy, adverb gusto)
* thick, dense

#### Declension
### Further reading

* Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “gusty”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
* Starosta, Manfred (1999) “gusty”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag