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Article: A boorish wind is even worse than a hissy one.(News)
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- July 28, 2009
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Byline: Craig Brown
QUESTION: Listening to the weather forecast on the wireless the other day, I heard the weatherman warning of 'gusty winds'. Is this a technical term and, if so, what other kinds of wind are there? 'GUSTY' is the technical term for a wind that is excitable and potentially destructive, but still able to operate on a more-or-less rational level. A 'blustery' wind is defined as a wind that is above itself, occasionally pompous and with no real centre.
The Meteorological Office offers the following technical definitions for the following common wind terms: HISSY: A 'hissy' wind seems breezy, but is apt to fly into a terrible whirligig of ...