blirtとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

blirt (複数形 blirts)

1. (nautical) A gust, as of wind and rain.
   • 1607, Marston, "What You Will", introduction; quoted in 1886, Alden's Cyclopedia of Universal Literature, page 98:

     […] and farther on he asks if the poet's resolve shall be

     Struck through with the blirt

     Of a goose breath?

   • 1999, Brian Daley, To Waters' End: Book Four of GammaLAW, Lucia St. Clair Robson, →ISBN:

     [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 […]

2. (Scotland) A fit of crying.

派生語

• blirty

動詞

blirt (三人称単数 現在形 blirts, 現在分詞 blirting, 過去形および過去分詞形 blirted)

1. (Scotland) To burst into tears.

参照

• Lewis Randolph Hamersly, A naval encyclopædia.