windy
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈwɪndi/
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.
- 1995, Pat Barker, The Ghost Road, Penguin 2014 (The Regeneration Trilogy), p. 848:
- (accompanied by wind) blowy, blustery, breezy
- See also Thesaurus:verbose
- See also Thesaurus:flatulent
- French: venteux
- Spanish: flatulento
windy (plural windies)
- (colloquial) fart
- IPA: /ˈwaɪndi/
windy (comparative windier, superlative windiest)
Translations- Russian: изви́листый
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