southerly buster n.
1. (Aus.) the cool, gusty wind that springs up at the end of a hot day, sometimes accompanied by a shower.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Our Antipodes I 83: The Brickfielder, or, as the Port Jackson boatmen call it, the Sútherly Búster. [Ibid.] 84: One of the greatest miseries of the Southerly Burster is [etc.]. | |
| Sth Aus. Register (Adelaide) 19 Nov. 2/7: A southerly buster upset the boat, and five of them were drowned. | |
| Rockhampton Bulletin (Qld) 27 Dec. 2/3: The weather was very oppressive [...] In the afternoon a southerly buster came on. | |
| Sydney Morn. Herald 28 Aug. 7/6: Shortly before sunrise there was a strong ‘southerly buster’ which lasted for some time. the only inconvenience was the dust. | |
| Australasian 12 Aug. 302 i: You should see him with Commodore Jack out in the teeth of ‘the hard glad weather,’ when a southerly buster sweeps up the harbour [F&H]. | |
| Clarence & Richmond Examiner (Grafton, NSW) 2 Nov. 4/5: Sydney Diary [...] A southerly buster has busted over the city and blown the streets quite clean. | |
| Examiner (Launceston, Tas.) 29 June 6/3: [advt.] The Southerly Buster at its height, / With wind and rain and sleet, / Is bound to give us every night / Wet clothes and cold, damp feet [...] Take a dose of never fail — Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. | |
| Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 20 Nov. 4/5: Yesterday the tenmperature [...] rose to 98 degrees in the shade, but a cool change with a ‘southerly buster’ came along in the evening. | |
| Argus (Melbourne) 10 Dec. 19/9: [headline] ‘Southerly Buster’ Dust, Wind and Rain. | |
| West. Argus (Kalgoorlie, WA) 8 Jan. 35/3: The [fishing] party were caught by a southerly buster and the launch capsized. | |
| Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 5 Feb. 2/6: When Jack Gregory [...] commenced bowling against Victoria [...] he had the southerly buster behind him. | |
| West Australian (Perth) 9 Jan. 17: The sudden ‘southerly buster’ [...] gave yachtsmen anxious moments. | |
| Sun. Times (Perth) 29 Aug. 25/5: A great, angry storm was breaking, fanned to a terrible fury by the ‘southerly buster’. | |
| Sydney Morn. Herald 27 Dec. 4/5: A 60-mile-an-hour ‘Southerly buster’ [...] damaged tents of many holiday campers. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 40: buster Short for a southerly buster or severe southerly storm. ANZ late C19. | |
| Headland [ebook] It was a southerly; a southerly buster, straight up from the Antarctic; isn’t it cold? |
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| Popular Dict. Aus. Sl. |