Scottish dialect word meaning gusty, blustery, or windy; characterized by strong gusts of wind.
From Scottish English, related to 'gust' (from Old Norse 'gustr'). The Scottish form 'gousty' preserves an older pronunciation or variant of the standard English 'gusty.'
Scottish dialect words often preserve older pronunciations of English words—'gousty' shows how the 'u' and 'ou' pronunciations were once interchangeable, a pattern you can see across English's regional variations.
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