Blirt
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Blirt is a noun meaning (nautical) A gust, as of wind and rain.
Meaning
(nautical) A gust, as of wind and rain.
More Meanings
- (Scotland) A fit of crying.
- (Scotland) To burst into tears.
Example Sentences
[…] and farther on he asks if the poet's resolve shall be Struck through with the blirt Of a goose breath?
[page 49:] The blirt was moving in, windy and wet. Somewhere out around the Forge Town headland, lightning broke over the Amnion and rain began to fall. [page 122:] Cobbles of the traffic circus before the barbican were dry after the blirt rain, but blood smeared the stones or was draining away into the seams […]
Word Forms
- blirts
- blirting
- blirted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bluster, flurry, snorter, whiffle, breeze, blustering.
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