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windy en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio
• /ˈwɪn.di/

Etymology

From Middle English windy, from Old English windiġ (“windy”), from Proto-Germanic *windigaz (“windy”), equivalent to wind + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wiendich (“windy”), West Frisian winich (“windy”), Dutch winderig (“windy”), German Low German windig (“windy”), German windig (“windy”), Swedish vindig (“windy”), Icelandic vindugur (“windy”). The “frightened” sense probably derives from the phrase have the wind up.

Meanings

1. Accompanied by wind.
   • […] Higher windier locations can some times provide a relief from these insects during the growing season.” 2021 August 12, Katie Hunt, “Mammoths were the original ‘ice road truckers,’ traveling vast distances across the Arctic”, in CNN:
   • Humid, windy days with low pressure make pain worse in those with long-term health conditions, according to new research. 2019 October 24, Jack Guy, “Humid, windy days worse for pain, says new study”, in CNN:
   • It was a long and windy night.
   • “Everybody is interested in extremes – the hottest, the wettest, the windiest – so creating a database of professionally verified records is useful in that fact alone,” says Randall Cerveny from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). 2017 June 15, Hiufu Wong, “11 extreme weather records”, in CNN:
2. Unsheltered and open to the wind.
   • They shagged in a windy bus shelter.
3. Empty and lacking substance.
   • They made windy promises they would not keep.
4. Long-winded; orally verbose.
   • I am not come hither to contend with the King of Witchland in windy railing, but to match my strength against his, sinew against sinew. 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 21:
5. (informal) Flatulent.
   • The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy.
6. (slang) Nervous, frightened.
   • The thing is he’s not windy, he’s a perfectly good soldier, no more than reasonably afraid of rifle and machine-gun bullets, shells, grenades. 1995, Pat Barker, The Ghost Road, Penguin, published 2014, The Regeneration Trilogy, page 848:

Forms

Antonyms

calm · windless

Deriveds

nonwindy · windily · windiness · unwindy

Relateds

wimdy

Synonyms

diffuse · verbose · rigmarole · sesquipedalian · flatulent · breezy · circumlocutory · blustery · farty · palaverous · blowy · gassy · pleonastic · curmurring · breezy · periphrastic · windy · prolix · wordy

Translations (113)

grc ἀνεμώδης (accompanied by wind) · tyv хаттыг (accompanied by wind) · sc bentosu (accompanied by wind) · kk желді (accompanied by wind) · nn vindsam (accompanied by wind) · gv geayeeagh (accompanied by wind) · yi ווינטיק (accompanied by wind) · eo venta (accompanied by wind) · ro vântos (accompanied by wind) · cy gwyntog (accompanied by wind) · gd gaothar (accompanied by wind) · fr venté (unsheltered and open to the wind) · it ventilato (unsheltered and open to the wind) · uz shamolli (accompanied by wind) · nl winderig (accompanied by wind) · ru ве́треный (accompanied by wind) · sv tom (empty and lacking substance) · fi tuulinen (unsheltered and open to the wind) · ca va (empty and lacking substance) · it ventoso (accompanied by wind) · gd gaothmhor (accompanied by wind) · sv ihålig (empty and lacking substance) · vi có gió (accompanied by wind) · cic mahli (accompanied by wind) · cs větrný (accompanied by wind) · sh вјетро̀вит (accompanied by wind) · bg ветрови́т (accompanied by wind) · es vano (empty and lacking substance) · ar عَاصِف (accompanied by wind) · yue 大風 /大风 (accompanied by wind) · es flatulento (flatulent) · fa بادی (accompanied by wind) · alt јелдӱ (accompanied by wind) · ja 風の吹く (accompanied by wind) · fi tuulinen (accompanied by wind) · nn vindal (accompanied by wind) · fi tuulesta temmattu (empty and lacking substance) · sga gáethach (accompanied by wind) · ky шамалдуу (accompanied by wind) · sl vetroven (accompanied by wind) · pt ventoso (accompanied by wind) · ko 바람 부는 (accompanied by wind) · mn салхитай (accompanied by wind) · pl wietrzny (accompanied by wind) · lv vējains (accompanied by wind) · hi तूफ़ानी (accompanied by wind) · mnc ᡝᡩᡠ᠋ᠩᡤᡝ (accompanied by wind) · sah тыаллаах (accompanied by wind) · gd gaothach (unsheltered and open to the wind) · be ве́траны (accompanied by wind) · fi tuulen pieksämä (unsheltered and open to the wind) · lt vėjuotas (accompanied by wind) · nn vindfull (accompanied by wind) · ka ქარიანი (accompanied by wind) · th ลมแรง (accompanied by wind) · tk şemally (accompanied by wind) · hy քամոտ (accompanied by wind) · sq me erë (accompanied by wind) · fr venteux (accompanied by wind) · cic mahli (unsheltered and open to the wind) · is vindasamur (accompanied by wind) · ug شاماللىق (accompanied by wind) · sh vjetròvit (accompanied by wind) · gd gaothach (accompanied by wind) · mga gáethmar (accompanied by wind) · uk ві́тряний (accompanied by wind) · ur ہوا دار (accompanied by wind) · sv blåsig (accompanied by wind) · mk ветровит (accompanied by wind) · sk veterný (accompanied by wind) · fr venteux (flatulent) · sv blåsig (unsheltered and open to the wind) · fr venteux (unsheltered and open to the wind) · tr rüzgârlı (accompanied by wind) · izh tuulekas (accompanied by wind) · hak 大風 /大风 (accompanied by wind) · es ventoso (accompanied by wind) · la vanus (empty and lacking substance) · fi tyhjä (empty and lacking substance) · hu szeles (accompanied by wind) · el ανεμώδης (accompanied by wind) · gd gaothmhor (flatulent) · lo ລົມແຮງ (accompanied by wind) · tt җилле (accompanied by wind) · et tuuline (accompanied by wind) · nan-hbl 大風 /大风 (accompanied by wind) · ca ventós (accompanied by wind) · km ខ្យល់ខ្លាំង (accompanied by wind) · sh ветро̀вит (accompanied by wind) · la ventōsus (accompanied by wind) · de windig (accompanied by wind) · nb vindfull (unsheltered and open to the wind) · da blæsende (accompanied by wind) · fr vain (empty and lacking substance) · ga gaofar (accompanied by wind) · cmn 大風 /大风 (accompanied by wind) · tg бодӣ (accompanied by wind) · ja 風の強い (accompanied by wind) · cs větrný (unsheltered and open to the wind) · nb vindfull (accompanied by wind) · hi हवादार (accompanied by wind) · vo vienik (accompanied by wind) · grc ἠνεμόεις (accompanied by wind) · fi ilmavaivainen (flatulent) · is vindugur (accompanied by wind) · ja 空疎な (empty and lacking substance) · is hvass (accompanied by wind) · az küləkli (accompanied by wind) · gd gaothach (flatulent) · mn ᠰᠠᠯᠬᠢᠲᠠᠢ (accompanied by wind) · cdo 大風 /大风 (accompanied by wind) · sh vetròvit (accompanied by wind) · nn vindfull (unsheltered and open to the wind)

windy en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio
• /ˈwɪn.di/

Etymology

From Middle English windy, from Old English windiġ (“windy”), from Proto-Germanic *windigaz (“windy”), equivalent to wind + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wiendich (“windy”), West Frisian winich (“windy”), Dutch winderig (“windy”), German Low German windig (“windy”), German windig (“windy”), Swedish vindig (“windy”), Icelandic vindugur (“windy”). The “frightened” sense probably derives from the phrase have the wind up.

Meanings

1. (colloquial) A fart.

Forms

windy en · ADJ · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /ˈwaɪndi/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Middle English wynden English wind Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English windy From wind (“to curve, bend”) + -y.

Meanings

1. (of a path etc) Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.

Forms

Deriveds

windily · windiness · windy pasty

Translations (6)

es serpenteante (having many bends) · it curvoso (having many bends) · ru изви́листый (having many bends) · yo kọ́lọkọ̀lọ (having many bends) · fi kiemurteleva (having many bends) · fi mutkainen (having many bends)

windy en · NOUN · etymology 3

Etymology

Variant of window.

Meanings

1. (Ireland) A window.
   • "You see it there, yondher, forenint you, at the bottom of the sthreet, wid the light in the winddy; or, stay, shure it's mysilf id think little of runnin' down wid you, poor crathurs!" 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 537:

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