windy

Adjective (1)

windy (comparative windier, superlative windiest)

1. Accompanied by wind.
   • It was a long and windy night.
   • “Everybody is interested in extremes – the hottest, the wettest, the windiest – so creating a database of professionally verified records is useful in that fact alone,” says Randall Cerveny from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).2017 June 15, Hiufu Wong, “11 extreme weather records”, in CNN

   Synonyms:

   blowy, blustery, breezy

   Antonyms:

   calm, windless

2. Unsheltered and open to the wind.
   • They shagged in a windy bus shelter.
3. Empty and lacking substance.
   • They made windy promises they would not keep.
4. 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.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 21

   Synonyms:

   circumlocutory, diffuse, periphrastic, palaverous, pleonastic, prolix, rigmarole, sesquipedalian, verbose, wordy

5. (informal) Flatulent.
   • The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy.

   Synonyms:

   farty, flatulent, gassy, breezy, curmurring

6. (slang) Nervous, frightened.
   • 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.1995, Pat Barker, The Ghost Road, Penguin, published 2014, The Regeneration Trilogy, page 848

Noun (1)

windy (plural windies)

1. (colloquial) A fart.

Adjective (2)

IPA/ˈwaɪndi/

windy (comparative windier, superlative windiest)

1. Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.

Noun (2)

windy (plural windies)

1. (Ireland) A window.
   • "You see it there, yondher, forenint you, at the bottom of the sthreet, wid the light in the winddy; or, stay, shure it's mysilf id think little of runnin' down wid you, poor crathurs!"1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 537

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Windy

Windy

1. A locality in the Liverpool Plains council area, central New South Wales, Australia.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Windy

Windy

1. A female given name.
   • “We’ve thought about leaving the state to find a job,” Sara March said, as she coddled her 7-month-old daughter, Windy.1993 September 3, Davan Maharaj, “Boy’s Death Shows Obstacles to Aiding Homeless Children”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from...
   • Lires, who enjoyed running and other sports, is survived by his wife, Theresa, and another daughter, Windy, 13, coroner’s officials said.1994 July 4, Jeff McDonald, “Ojai Pilot and Daughter, 10, Are Killed in Plane Crash […]”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...