windy
About 1.40 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Accompanied by wind.
It was a long and windy night.
- adjective Unsheltered and open to the wind.
They shagged in a windy bus shelter.
- adjective Empty and lacking substance.
They made windy promises they would not keep.
- adjective Long-winded; orally verbose.
- adjective Flatulent.
The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy.
- adjective Nervous, frightened.
- noun A fart.
- adjective Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.
Similar words
blowy stormy breezy wordy prolix long-winded tedious verbose downwind wind
Often followed by
day and city weather days night conditions hill nights
Word family
windier windiest windily windiness windinesses
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