Etymology 1
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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”).
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Adjective
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windy (comparative windier, superlative windiest)
- Accompanied by wind.
It was a long and windy night.
- Unsheltered and open to the wind.
They shagged 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, published 2014, The Regeneration Trilogy, page 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.
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accompanied by wind
- Albanian: me erë
- Arabic: عَاصِف (ʕāṣif)
- Armenian: քամոտ (hy) (kʻamot)
- Azerbaijani: küləkli (az)
- Belarusian: ве́траны (vjétrany)
- Bulgarian: ветрови́т (vetrovít)
- Catalan: ventós (ca)
- Chickasaw: mahli
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 大風/大风 (daai6 fung1)
- Eastern Min: 大風/大风 (duâi-hŭng)
- Hakka: 大風/大风 (thai-fûng)
- Hokkien: 大風/大风 (tōa-hong)
- Mandarin: 大風/大风 (zh) (dàfēng)
- 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 (hi) (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 (jeldı)
- Khmer: ខ្យល់ខ្លាំង (khyɑlkhlang)
- Korean: 바람 부는 (baram buneun)
- Kyrgyz: шамалдуу (ky) (şamalduu)
- Lao: ລົມແຮງ (lom hǣng)
- Latin: ventōsus
- Latvian: vējains
- Lithuanian: vėjuotas
- Macedonian: ветровит (vetrovit)
- Manchu: ᡝᡩᡠ᠋ᠩᡤᡝ (edungge)
- Manx: geayeeagh
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: салхитай (salxitaj)
- Mongolian: ᠰᠠᠯᠬᠢᠲᠠᠢ (salkitai)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: vindfull
- Nynorsk: vindfull, vindal, vindsam
- Old Irish: gáethmar, gáethach
- Persian: بادی (fa) (bâdi)
- Polish: wietrzny (pl)
- Portuguese: ventoso (pt)
- Romanian: vântos (ro)
- Russian: ве́треный (ru) (vétrenyj)
- Sardinian: bentosu
- Scottish Gaelic: gaothach, gaothmhor, gaothar
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ветро̀вит, вјетро̀вит
- Roman: vetròvit (sh), vjetròvit (sh)
- Slovak: veterný
- Slovene: vetroven
- Spanish: ventoso
- Swedish: blåsig (sv)
- Tajik: бодӣ (bodī)
- Tatar: җилле (cille)
- Thai: ลมแรง (lom-rɛɛng)
- Turkish: rüzgârlı
- Turkmen: şemally
- Tuvan: хаттыг (xattıg)
- Ukrainian: ві́тряний (vítrjanyj)
- Urdu: ہوا دار (havā-dār)
- Uyghur: شاماللىق (shamalliq)
- Uzbek: shamolli (uz)
- Vietnamese: có gió
- Volapük: vienik (vo)
- Welsh: gwyntog (cy)
- Yakut: тыаллаах (tıallaaq)
- Yiddish: ווינטיק (vintik)
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unsheltered and open to the wind
empty and lacking substance
windy (plural windies)
- (colloquial) A fart.
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Etymology 2
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wind (“to curve, bend”) + -y
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /ˈwaɪndi/
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Adjective
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windy (comparative windier, superlative windiest)
- (of a path etc) Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.
Usage notes
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Due to ambiguity with the homograph described above, the word winding is generally preferred in print.
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