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/wˈɪndi/ /wˈaɪndi/ Listen

adjective

Windy adj. (compar. windier; superl. windiest)

Consisting of wind; accompanied or characterized by wind; exposed to wind. "The windy hill." "Blown with the windy tempest of my heart."

Next the wind; windward. "It keeps on the windy side of care."

Tempestuous; boisterous; as, windy weather.

Serving to occasion wind or gas in the intestines; flatulent; as, windy food.

Attended or caused by wind, or gas, in the intestines. "A windy colic."

Fig.: Empty; airy. "Windy joy." "Here's that windy applause, that poor, transitory pleasure, for which I was dishonored."

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Etymology of 'Windy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Windy" Quotes from Famous Books

... lord values her health, 'twould be best to put her in a less windy chamber; the room is large and ill-heated for ...

— Mistress Penwick • Dutton Payne

... along. After the sun sank, a cold wind sprang up and moaned over the prairie. If this turn in the weather had come sooner, I should not have got away. We burrowed down in the straw and curled up close together, watching the angry red die out of the west and the stars begin to shine in the clear, windy sky. Peter kept sighing and groaning. Tony whispered to me that he was afraid Pavel would never get well. We lay still and did not talk. Up there the stars grew magnificently bright. Though we had come from such different parts of the world, in both of us there ...

— My Antonia • Willa Sibert Cather

... up in arms, by Grizzle led, Will, ere the rosy-finger'd morn shall ope The shutters of the sky, before the gate Of this thy royal palace, swarming spread. [1] So have I seen the bees in clusters swarm, So have I seen the stars in frosty nights, So have I seen the sand in windy days, So have I seen the ghosts on Pluto's shore, So have I seen the flowers in spring arise, So have I seen the leaves in autumn fall, So have I seen the fruits in summer smile, So have I seen the snow ...

— Miscellanies, Volume 2 (from Works, Volume 12) • Henry Fielding

... in it—only sand and weeds—and they call it a river because there is seldom any water in it. But I've seen such lazy sand-foundered streams a mile wide and swift as sin. So I take no risk with precious property, even if I have to tote barrels of water and slop the parlor rug on windy days." ...

— Winning the Wilderness • Margaret Hill McCarter

... and we determined to go thither. We had to walk through the town, which may be about as large as Penrith, and perhaps a mile further, along a dusty turnpike road. The morning was hot, sunny, and windy, and we were half tired before we reached the place; but were amply repaid for ...

— Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 • Dorothy Wordsworth

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