southerly buster

  • 1southerly buster — /sʌðəli ˈbʌstə/ (say sudhuhlee bustuh) noun a strong, cool southerly wind which blows after a hot day on the south eastern coast of Australia, often bringing rain: *The southerly buster, the genie of Sydney, flapped its coarse blusterous wing… …

  • 2southerly buster — noun A summer cold front which works its way up the coast, bringing strong cool southerly winds to replace and relieve hot conditions. 1850: It is almost a corollary, that the evening of a hot wind day brings up a southerly buster, as we have… …

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  • 3southerly buster — Brickfielder Brick field er, n. [Australia] 1. Orig., at Sydney, a cold and violent south or southwest wind, rising suddenly, and regularly preceded by a hot wind from the north; now usually called {southerly buster}. It blew across the… …

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  • 4southerly buster — noun : buster 3 …

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  • 5Southerly Buster — a seasonal windstorm that occurs along the East coast of Australia …

    Dictionary of Australian slang

  • 6southerly buster — Australian Slang a seasonal windstorm that occurs along the East coast of Australia …

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  • 7Southerly — is the name of a storm or front of air coming from the south. In the Southern Hemisphere these can be cold and have bad weather. In Wellington, New Zealand these storms are normally short and frequently have winds gusting between 120 km/h and 160 …

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  • 8buster — /ˈbʌstə/ (say bustuh) Colloquial –noun 1. someone or something that attacks or overpowers something, usually specified: crime busters. 2. → southerly buster. 3. a fall, especially from a horse. 4. Chiefly US (a term of address to a man or boy.)… …

  • 9southerly — /ˈsʌðəli / (say sudhuhlee) adjective 1. moving, directed, or situated towards the south. 2. coming from the south, as a wind. –adverb 3. towards the south. 4. from the south. –noun 5. a wind from the south. 6. NSW → southerly buster.… …

  • 10brickfielder — /ˈbrɪkfildə / (say brikfeelduh) noun Colloquial (formerly) 1. (in Sydney) a. a strengthening north westerly wind which preceded a southerly buster. b. the southerly buster itself. 2. (elsewhere in Australia) a hot, dry wind, usually blowing from… …