Homonym

[Daniel38]

Hi

I'm looking for the homonym for the following clue 

Surprised to be carried by a gust of wind

Thanks

[emeritus]

Blown away ?

[cashier]

Blown away?

[fiction-factory]

Could be- but it's the same term not a homonym

[dannyk13]

Flustered & blustered?

[emeritus]

homonyms, broadly defined, are words which sound alike or are spelled alike, but have different meanings

[dannyk13]

So blown away looks good.

[geevo]

I think 'blown away' is the correct answer but Daniel should have asked for a metaphor rather than a homonym.

[dannyk13]

A metaphorical homonym :-)

[Daniel38]

I should clarify, the question was put under the section of the quiz I did as a homonym, all the other answers I got in that section were homonyms, e.g bays and baize. So I guess the answer to this question is one also, but I could not think of any?

[dannyk13]

Daniel, do you mean that all previous answers were sound alikes rather than spelled the same?

[aelmpvw]

bays and baize are homophones

[Spoffy]

I would suggest that 'blown away' here was simply being used in both a literal and a figurative sense. Homonymity requires that the origin of the words is different, eg 'Carnival free from rain' for FAIR. Incidentally, 'bays' and 'baize' would normally be referred to as homophones, although the term homonym (='same name') is sometimes loosely used to include words with different spellings.

[Daniel38]

The actual wording of the section from, Many words sound the same but have different spellings and meanings e.g DNA in Casual wear = Genes & Jeans

[dannyk13]

So we are looking for a synonym of surprised which sounds like a word that means carried away by a gust of wind.

[Daniel38]

Yes, that's what I think