blirtyadj.
northern.
Characterized by blirts or gusts of wind and rain.
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1810 R. Tannahill Poems (1846) 16 O poortith is a wintry day! Cheerless, blirtie, cauld, and blae.
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adj.1810- to dance barefoot
- to dance barnaby
- to dance between a pair of sheets
- to dance friskin
- to dance in a net
- to dance low
- to dance provo
- to dance the hay or hays
- to dance the morris
- to dance the tyburn jig
- to dance to or after a person's pipe, whistle
- to dance to or after pipe, whistle
- to dance upon nothing
- to dare larks
- to dare not quetch
- to dare not so much as quetch
- to darken a person's daylights
- to darken a person's door
- to darken counsel
- to darken daylights
- to dash a person out of countenance
- to dash a person out of countenance conceit
- to dash a person out of countenance courage
- to dash a person'one's brains out
- to dash a person's brains out