Meaning of weathery | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Accompanied by or featuring wind and/or precipitation.
2. Worn or otherwise affected by weather; (of a person's features or body) showing signs of age or wear.
3. Subject to frequent changes (of direction or fortune, for example).
4. Lacking in flavour as a result of the leaves having been harvested during mid-season rains. (of tea)

Examples

“In weathery days, when near, I loot thee in;”

“1960, Joseph Sargent Hall, Smoky Mountain Folks and their Lore, Asheville, NC: The Cataloochee Press, Great Smoky Mountains Natural History Association, Chapter 10, p. 67, Weather often means bad weather, a rain or snow storm: […] one may hear: “There’s no need of you goin’ out, it’s so weathery.””

“Between a film of weathery sky and a relatively quiet ebb tide of water near at hand like dar, dense surging waves […]”

““It’s just that some people said it was a weathery day. It was foggy but it wasn’t weathery. It was a calm day, Mr Dove. A calm day.””

“The people who lived in the village saw the house high in its weathery notch on the long ridge to the north, storm clouds fisting about it, or the white cumuli bunching past on their way to somewhere else,”

“[…] Bill slapped with all his might and main, on his leather old weathery cheek, enough to break his jaw.”

“It was a cluster of two-room cottages with weathery wood shingles in an oak forest,”

“He turns over the rough-hewn back of his hands to show that anyone can get a callus or two on the palms but only the seasoned farmer has weathery skin on the other side.”

“I was going to say something about the boarded window, and the weathery paint, and how the chimney was coming apart, but Dad looked so skinny and thoughtful I decided not to.”

“In so desultory and―as one intelligent street-seller with whom I conversed on the subject described it―so weathery a trade, it is difficult to arrive at exact statistics.”

“the flitting fancy of a boy and girl, who pop upon one another, and skip through zig-zag vernal ecstasy, like the weathery dalliance of gnats”

“The Ningchows are tarry, burnt, mouldy or weathery.”

“Even at high elevations, if the season is exceptionally wet, the teas are thin and uninteresting. They are called “weathery.””

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