blirt

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English

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Etymology

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From a variation of blurt.

Noun

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blirt (plural 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.

Derived terms

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Verb

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blirt (third-person singular simple present blirts, present participle blirting, simple past and past participle blirted)

  1. (Scotland) To burst into tears.

References

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  • Lewis Randolph Hamersly, A naval encyclopædia.