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Windy

//ˈwɪn.di// adj, name, noun, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Accompanied by wind.

    "It was a long and windy night."

  2. 2
    Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.
  3. 3
    Unsheltered and open to the wind.

    "They shagged in a windy bus shelter."

  4. 4
    Empty and lacking substance.

    "They made windy promises they would not keep."

  5. 5
    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."

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  1. 6
    Flatulent. informal

    "The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy."

  2. 7
    Nervous, frightened. slang

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes wordnet
  2. 2
    using or containing too many words wordnet
  3. 3
    resembling the wind in speed, force, or variability wordnet
  4. 4
    not practical or realizable; speculative wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A locality in the Liverpool Plains council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
Noun
  1. 1
    A fart. colloquial

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

Etymology 3

From wind (“to curve, bend”) + -y.

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