blowy

Adjective

blowy (comparative blowier, superlative blowiest)

1. Windy or breezy.
   • All my doors open! this blowy night! reminds me of the Lisbon earthquake; but my storm-cap has protected me.1789, John O’Keeffe, Modern Antiques; or, The Merry Mourners, Act II, Scene 3, in The Dramatic Works of John O’Keeffe, London, 1798, Volume I, p. 351
   • […] one blowy July afternoon, as they were going up for a potato-roast, they saw somebody moving among the trees.1910, Rudyard Kipling, “Gloriana”, in Rewards and Fairies
2. Billowy, blowing or waving in the wind. (of fabric, hair, etc.)
   • […] I remember now. You had the sun behind you, filtering through your amazing blowy hair, red hair […]2012, Dawn French, chapter 16, in Oh Dear Silvia, Penguin
   • A panoramic view of all the lives ruined by the financial markets, from the midlevel banker just trying to meet her monthly quota to the overly loyal gangster who doesn’t realize that loud, blowy Hawaiian shirts are the opposite of subtle.2013 October 17, Hua Hsu, “King of Hong Kong: Johnnie To and the violent, inventive evolution of H.K. cinema”, in Grantland
3. Susceptible to drifting. (of soil)
   • And fall plowing except on blowy soils also will be good for the spring sown crops.1929, U.S. Department of Agriculture Radio Service, Office of Information, Farm Science Snapshots, 19 October, 1929
   • Some farmers, however, quit raising cowpeas on blowy land, because they claimed it aggravated drifting.1938, Angus Henry McDonald, Erosion and its Control in Oklahoma Territory, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Miscellaneous Publication No. 301, p. 17