beasterly

English

Etymology

Blend of beastly +‎ easterly

Adjective

beasterly (comparative more beasterly, superlative most beasterly)

1. Cold, unpleasant, and from the east.
   • 1882, Fanny Kemble, Records of Later Life - Volume 2, page 288:

     Yesterday I completed, with Emily's assistance (which nearly drove me mad) that packing of the great huge chest of books, boxes, etc., and she and I walked together, but it was bitter cold and ungenial, regular beasterly wind.

   • 1886, The Gardeners' Monthly and Horticulturist - Volume 28, page 345:

     The ordinary English bee is generally tolerably well-behaved, but not always so, and is occasionally perfectly furious, especially if the wind is "beasterly."

   • 1898, Religious Tract Society (Great Britain), The Sunday at Home - Volume 46, page 603:

     I'm afeard 'tis a horrid beasterly wind, father.

   • 1936, Philological Papers - Volumes 1-3, page 68:

     The wind is easterly, The weather is beasterly.

   • 1953, Basil Lubbock, The Last of the Windjammers - Volume 2, page 213:

     Landsmen can seldom tell you the direction of the wind, unless it happens to be easterly and beasterly, neither is it any longer a matter of vital importance to seamen.