英语词汇blustery的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	blustery
词源	blustery adj. 1739, "noisy, swaggering," of persons; 1774, "rough, stormy," of weather; from bluster (n.) + -y (2). Blustering is from 1510s as "stormy, tempestuous;" 1650s as "boastful, swaggering." Shakespeare used blusterous. Entries linking to blustery bluster n. 1580s, "a storm of violent wind," from bluster (v.). The meaning "noisy, boisterous, inflated talk" is from 1704. -y 2 adjective suffix, "full of or characterized by," from Old English -ig, from Proto-Germanic -iga- (source also of Dutch, Danish, German -ig, Gothic -egs), from PIE -(i)ko-, adjectival suffix, cognate with elements in Greek -ikos, Latin -icus (see -ic). Originally added to nouns in Old English; used from 13c. with verbs, and by 15c. even with other adjectives (for example crispy). Adjectives such as hugy, vasty* are artificial words that exist for the sake of poetical metrics. updated on June 29, 2017
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blustery adj.