windy

comparative windier · superlative windiest

1. Accompanied by wind.

   It was a long and windy night.

   3 more examples

   “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

   Humid, windy days with low pressure make pain worse in those with long-term health conditions, according to new research.

   2019 October 24, Jack Guy, “Humid, windy days worse for pain, says new study”, in CNN

   […] Higher windier locations can some times provide a relief from these insects during the growing season.”

   2021 August 12, Katie Hunt, “Mammoths were the original ‘ice road truckers,’ traveling vast distances across the Arctic”, 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

5. informalFlatulent.

   The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy.

   Synonyms: farty, flatulent, gassy, breezy, curmurring

6. slangNervous, 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

plural windies

1. colloquialA fart.

comparative windier · superlative windiest

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

plural windies

1. IrelandA 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

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

1. A female given name.

   With daughter Windy, he wrote a “diet book spoof.”

   2006 November 9, Rone Tempest, “District alters course amid winds of change”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2026

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   “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 the original on 03 Aug 2026

   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 original on 03 Aug 2026

   He’s a 55-year-old math wonk and wind energy expert who never even ran for class president. He likes to climb wind turbines. He named his daughter Windy.

   2006 November 20, Faye Fiore, “Unlikely new lawmaker rode winds of change”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 May 2021

   In a video chat with Sewell’s daughter, Windy, before heading to the airport, Byron tried to console the 5-year-old, to whom he has grown close.

   2020 January 23, Brittny Mejia, “Families reunite after nearly two years apart: ‘Beginning of a whole other journey’”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2020