blirt

English

Etymology

From a variation of blurt.

Noun

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

• blirty

Verb

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

1. (Scotland) To burst into tears.

References

• Lewis Randolph Hamersly, A naval encyclopædia.