gustyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From gust +‎ -y.

形容詞

gusty (comparative gustier, superlative gustiest)

1. 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 28569419, 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.

2. (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.

3. (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.

語源 2

From Latin gustus (“tasting”)

形容詞

gusty (comparative gustier, superlative gustiest)

1. 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.

派生語

• gustily
• gustiness

アナグラム

• gutsy