Lexicographical Neighbors of Blashy
Literary usage of Blashy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Oliver Heslop (1892)
"Their streets are like wors—brave and blashy ! "—T. Thompson, Canny Newcastle.
... Poor blashy yell."—T. Wilson, Stanzas on New Line of Road. ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1882)
"Slash is applied to water, familiarly, or to anything of a watery nature.
Weak tea, or poor ale, is blash, or blashy, adj. ..."
3. A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire by John Harland (1876)
"'A blashy body.' Blast. Seo Fire-cods. Blate, adj. bashful. Tearfully liate,'
exceedingly modest. Blather, v. to blab. ..."
4. Yorkshire Folk-talk: With Characteristics of Those who Speak it in the North by Marmaduke Charles Frederick Morris (1892)
"C. (i) Wet, as regards weather, roads, &c. (2) Weak, watery, as applied to drinks.
Ex.—// 's a blashy tahm been.—Ah thinks this tea 's nobbut Blather, v. ..."
5. A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases: Collected in Whitby and the by Francis Kildale Robinson (1855)
"Also in the sense of weak or watery, as " blashy ale," thin poor stuff. BLATE,
bashful. "Fearfully blate," exceedingly bashful. To BLEAR, to expose one's ..."
6. A Glossary of Words Pertaining to the Dialect of Mid-Yorshire: With Others by C. Clough Robinson (1876)
"... te neet—fost blashy teoa an then blashy talk.' or mud. Blather, v. to besmear
with mud, ..."
7. The Lost Beauties of the English Language: An Appeal to Authors, Poets by Charles Mackay (1874)
"blashy, thin, poor, weak, small; applied to drink,—as ... beer—very small beer;'
or ' blashy tea.' Blate, cold ; insipid; bashful; modest; shy. ..."
8. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Oliver Heslop (1892)
"Their streets are like wors—brave and blashy ! "—T. Thompson, Canny Newcastle.
... Poor blashy yell."—T. Wilson, Stanzas on New Line of Road. ..."
9. Publications by English Dialect Society (1882)
"Slash is applied to water, familiarly, or to anything of a watery nature.
Weak tea, or poor ale, is blash, or blashy, adj. ..."
10. A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire by John Harland (1876)
"'A blashy body.' Blast. Seo Fire-cods. Blate, adj. bashful. Tearfully liate,'
exceedingly modest. Blather, v. to blab. ..."
11. Yorkshire Folk-talk: With Characteristics of Those who Speak it in the North by Marmaduke Charles Frederick Morris (1892)
"C. (i) Wet, as regards weather, roads, &c. (2) Weak, watery, as applied to drinks.
Ex.—// 's a blashy tahm been.—Ah thinks this tea 's nobbut Blather, v. ..."
12. A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases: Collected in Whitby and the by Francis Kildale Robinson (1855)
"Also in the sense of weak or watery, as " blashy ale," thin poor stuff. BLATE,
bashful. "Fearfully blate," exceedingly bashful. To BLEAR, to expose one's ..."
13. A Glossary of Words Pertaining to the Dialect of Mid-Yorshire: With Others by C. Clough Robinson (1876)
"... te neet—fost blashy teoa an then blashy talk.' or mud. Blather, v. to besmear
with mud, ..."
14. The Lost Beauties of the English Language: An Appeal to Authors, Poets by Charles Mackay (1874)
"blashy, thin, poor, weak, small; applied to drink,—as ... beer—very small beer;'
or ' blashy tea.' Blate, cold ; insipid; bashful; modest; shy. ..."
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