- rainy, wet, gusty. Blashy weather is not just unpleasant, it can have gruesome consequences for shepherds: The thick blawn Wreaths [drifts] of Snaw, or blashy Thows [thaws], May smoor [smother] your Wathers [castrated male sheep], and may rot your Ews (Allan Ramsay The Gentle Shepherd 1725).
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