i Register
In some senses, gusty is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.
adj
Of wind: blowing in gusts; blustery; tempestuous.
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, / The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, / The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, / And the highwayman came riding— / Riding—riding— / The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.
Characterized by or occurring in instances of sudden strong expression.
A change evidently came over the countess's thoughts; her thin lips grew white (her eyes remained the same), and her voice when she spoke evidently surprised even herself by the violence of its gusty outburst.
'No, no, no,' she said. 'Who could be disloyal to you, Miss?' And then the gusty tears came.
Bombastic, verbose.
“I am a man of few words,” shouted a red-necked House member as he started his second hour of a gusty speech.
From the vigorous, warm, gusty oratory of the Gallican apologists, we pass into a thinner and cooler and quieter atmosphere, that of the Spanish lecture-room.
adj
With gusto
His lips, warm with his words, caught hers in a gusty kiss.
I give her a gusty wink.