windy

EnglishEdit

Tree on a windy day

From Middle English windy, from Old English windiġ (“windy”), from Proto-Germanic *windigaz (“windy”), equivalent to wind +‎ -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wiendich (“windy”), West Frisian winich (“windy”), Dutch winderig (“windy”), German Low German windig (“windy”), German windig (“windy”), Swedish vindig (“windy”), Icelandic vindugur (“windy”).

windy (comparative windier, superlative windiest)

Accompanied by wind.
It was a long and windy night.
Unsheltered and open to the wind.
They made love in a windy bus shelter.
Empty and lacking substance.
They made windy promises they would not keep.
Long-winded; orally verbose.
(informal) Flatulent.
The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy.
(slang) Nervous, frightened.
- 1995, Pat Barker, The Ghost Road, Penguin 2014 (The Regeneration Trilogy), p. 848:
  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.

accompanied by wind

Albanian: me erë
Arabic: عَاصِف‎ (ʿāṣif)
Armenian: քամոտ (hy) (kʿamot)
Azerbaijani: küləkli (az)
Belarusian: ве́траны (vjétrany)
Bulgarian: ветрови́т (vetrovít)
Catalan: ventós
Chickasaw: mahli
Chinese:
Cantonese: 大風, 大风 (daai⁶ fung¹)

Hakka: 大風, 大风 (thai-fûng)

Mandarin: 大風 (zh) (dàfēng), 大风 (zh) (dàfēng)

Min Dong: 大風, 大风 (duâi-hŭng)

Min Nan: 大風, 大风 (tōa-hong)
Czech: větrný (cs)
Danish: blæsende
Dutch: winderig (nl)
Esperanto: venta (eo)
Estonian: tuuline
Finnish: tuulinen (fi)
French: venteux (fr)
Georgian: ქარიანი (kariani)
German: windig (de)
Greek: ανεμώδης (el) (anemódis)
Ancient: ἀνεμώδης (anemṓdēs), ἠνεμόεις (ēnemóeis)
Hindi: तूफ़ानी (tūfānī), हवादार (hi) (havādār)
Hungarian: szeles (hu)
Irish: gaofar
Italian: ventoso (it) m
Japanese: 風の吹く (kaze no fuku), 風の強い (kaze no tsuyoi)
Kazakh: желді (jeldi)
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 바람 부는 (baram buneun)
Kyrgyz: шамалдуу (ky) (şamalduu)
Lao: ລົມແຮງ (lom hǣng)
Latin: ventōsus
Latvian: vējains
Lithuanian: vėjuotas
Macedonian: ветровит (vetrovit)