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windmilly

windmilly adjective: having many windmills.

Adjective

windmilly (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Having many windmills.
    • The whole united industry seemed to be thriving and flourishing, too; and when a windmilly town does flourish, it is (from a flourishy point of view) a thing to remember.1885, George Henry Boughton, Sketching Rambles in Holland, page 50
    • A windmilly country this, though the windmills are so damp and rickety, […]1895, Charles Dickens, The Uncommercial Traveller, page 149

Origin of windmilly

From windmill + -y.

Questions about windmilly

What does windmilly mean?
Windmilly means having many windmills.
What part of speech is windmilly?
Windmilly is an adjective.

Words near windmilly in the dictionary

  1. windmiller
  2. windmillers
  3. windmilling
  4. windmills
  5. windmills in one's head
  6. windmilly
  7. windoid
  8. windoids
  9. windolite
  10. Windom
  11. Windoms

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