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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

... happily. They breakfasted again in their own room, and Julie was in one of her subdued moods, if one ever could say she was subdued. Afterwards Peter lit a cigarette and strolled over to the window. "It's a beastly day," he said, "cloudy, cold, windy, and going to rain, I think. What shall we do? Snow up in the hotel all ...

— Simon Called Peter • Robert Keable

... late, I think, unless they make up time. We're due at three. I hope there won't be any delay at Brighton. Sometimes on windy nights——" ...

— Dawn of All • Robert Hugh Benson

... that later you may go inside and watch at close range without disturbing them in the least. This blind is often used for close bird photography. I have taken pictures of Herring Gulls at a distance of only six feet with the aid of such a blind. If you wish to use it on a windy day it may be stayed by a few guy-lines from ...

— The Bird Study Book • Thomas Gilbert Pearson

... "first-class Educational Establishment." It employed a considerable corps of instructors to rough out and finish the hundred young lady scholars it sheltered beneath its roof. First, Mr. and Mrs. Peckham, the Principal and the Matron of the school. Silas Peckham was a thorough Yankee, born on a windy part of the coast, and reared chiefly on salt-fish. Everybody knows the type of Yankee produced by this climate and diet: thin, as if he had been split and dried; with an ashen kind of complexion, like the tint of the food he is ...

— Elsie Venner • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... hand, he recited every word that he could remember, and when he reached the words, "We therefore commit her body to the grave," the keen knife severed the moose-hide thong, and the trees, released, bent back, carrying the girl's body to its windy sepulchre, amid a shower of snow that scattered from the neighbouring trees. Stane pronounced the benediction, waited a few moments, then again he put a ...

— A Mating in the Wilds • Ottwell Binns

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