How to pronounce“blusterous”in English
wabe…"-- which is another way in which language is affected by uncontrollable semantic drift.
The point of Lewis Carroll's famous nonsense verse is that we all think we know what it means: "'Twas blusterous and the
slimy toads did leap and frolic in the waves." We think that it means something like that, but semantic drift--which is what Lewis Carroll deliberately
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Definitions of “blusterous”
Tending to bluster.
“[…] wee see a strong and sturdie Oke to stande stiffe and immo∣uable against the blustrous blastes of fierce windes […]”
Tending to bluster.
“[I]t seemed entirely right and fitting that the wind sang and sobbed in the poplar tops, and in the lulls of it, sudden spirts of rain spattered the already dusty roads, on that blusterous March day when Edward and I awaited, on the station platform, the arrival of the new tutor.”
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