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English → English (gcide) Definition: southerly 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 Brickfields, formerly so called, a district of Sydney, and carried clouds of dust into the city. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 2. By confusion, a midsummer hot wind from the north. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]