windy
adjectivenounadjectiveattested in dialogue
- //ˈwɪn.di//
- //ˈwaɪndi//
Accompanied by wind.
adjective
- 1
Accompanied by wind.
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).
Humid, windy days with low pressure make pain worse in those with long-term health conditions, according to new research.
[…] Higher windier locations can some times provide a relief from these insects during the growing season.”
- 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.
- 5
informalFlatulent.
The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy.
- 6
slangNervous, 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.
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.
noun
- 1
A fart.
adjective
- 1
Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.
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.
Forms
- plural
- windies
- comparative
- windier
- superlative
- windiest