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The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete ...
Hence (1) Gausterer,sb.a swaggerer, braggart, blusterer: (a) Gaustering, (0) ppl.
adj. imperious, blustering; boastful, bumptious, turbulent, roystering; (b) sb.
swagger, brag ; (3) Gousterous or Goustrous, adj'. boisterous, rude, violent;
strong, ...
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
(b)_ sb. swagger, brag; (3i Gousterous or Goustrous, an). botsterous, rude,
violent; strong. active. (1) Cbs.1.Lei.1, \Varfla [AmenDr'nL Wales (1396) l. 331.] (2,
a) w.lr. A gosthcring, spending, having brood they are and always have been, ...
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Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. A-Kut
GOUSTY, adj. Tempestuous ; as, a gousty day. S. GOUSTROUS, adj. 1. A
goustrous nigJu, a dark, wet, stormy night, including the idea of the loudness of
the wind and rain, as well as of the gloomy effect of the darkness. S. 2. Frightful,
Dumfr.
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Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry
We peer oot frae' t Like cats' een bleezin' in a goustrous nicht (Whaur there is
nocht to find but stars That look like ither cats' een), Like cats' een, and there is
nocht to find Savin' we turn them in upon oorsels; Cats canna. Darkness is wi' us
a' ...
Hugh MacDiarmid, Alan Riach, Michael Grieve,
2006
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The Chambers Dictionary
goustrous 695 grace goustrous gon's'irzs, (Seal) adj boisterous, rude. gousty
guws'li, (Scot) adj dreary; desolate: empty. gout1 ci'"'. n a disease in which excess
of uric acid in the blood is deposited as urates in the joints, etc, with swelling esp
...
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The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the ...
A dialectal variant of gush. goussett, n. In milit. armor, same as gusset. gouster (
gous'ter), »». [Cf. gousty, gust*.] A violent or unmanageable person ; a
swaggering fellow. [Scotch.] goustrous (gous'trns), a. [As gouster + -ous. Cf.
gousty.'] Stormy ...
William Dwight Whitney,
1889
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Thomas Carlyle: a history of his life in London, 1834-1881
The jury were eleven to one. . . . What chance was there that any future jury
would agree to the verdict which he wished ? There would only be more expense
with no result, &c. 1 Goustrous— strong, boisterous. Young people in earnest
about ...
James Anthony Froude,
1919
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Every-day pronunciation
See also gormand. gourmet, goorme'. goustrous (Scot.), gous'- trus. gousty (Scot.
), goos'ti. gout, gout, gout, goo. goutte (Scot.), goot. gouvernante, godvernaiit'.
The form governante is set down as obsolete. Its sound is variously represented
as ...
Robert Palfrey Utter,
1918
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Carlyle as seen in his works: his characteristics as a ...
When sending to his friends at home a copy of his Lectures on Heroes he
describes them as a " goustrous " speaking out of his mind about many things.
We see his fondness for words which have a very full meaning, such as " godlike
" and ...
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The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness
Or, for that matter, who so goustrous? Or so noddypolled ? Or so besniggled ?
The canned review of "Heart's Content," by Ralph Henry Barbour (Lip- pincott),
announces "nothing sordid, nothing that will offend the most delicate taste, and
yet ...
George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken,
1916