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adjective

Windy adj. (compar. windier; superl. windiest)

Consisting of wind; accompanied or characterized by wind; exposed to wind. "The windy hill." "Blown with the windy tempest of my heart."

Next the wind; windward. "It keeps on the windy side of care."

Tempestuous; boisterous; as, windy weather.

Serving to occasion wind or gas in the intestines; flatulent; as, windy food.

Attended or caused by wind, or gas, in the intestines. "A windy colic."

Fig.: Empty; airy. "Windy joy." "Here's that windy applause, that poor, transitory pleasure, for which I was dishonored."

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Etymology of 'Windy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... took her to a toilet counter, and she bought the proper hair soap, also a nail file, and cold cream, for use after windy days. Then they left her with the experienced clerk, and when at last Wesley found her she was loaded with bundles and the light of other days was in her beautiful eyes. Wesley also carried ...

— A Girl Of The Limberlost • Gene Stratton Porter

... purple crown Six foot out of the turf, And the harebell shakes on the windy hill— O the breath of the ...

— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 - Sorrow and Consolation • Various

... though it were burnt; the work was carelessly done; a threshing machine that had been ordered from Moscow turned out to be useless from its great weight, another was ruined the first time it was used; half the cattle sheds were burnt down through an old blind woman on the farm going in windy weather with a burning brand to fumigate her cow ... the old woman, it is true, maintained that the whole mischief could be traced to the master's plan of introducing newfangled cheeses and milk-products. The overseer suddenly turned lazy, ...

— Fathers and Children • Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

... and impartial justice, and with a view to the elevation and perpetuation of the full rights of citizenship of all their people, inasmuch as these are principles which constitute the basis of our republican institutions."[1038] Greeley pronounced this language "timid and windy."[1039] ...

— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

... in wishing the men luck in various degrees, he rounded up the remnant of his army and began again. In a day or two the stampeders began to limp back hungry and weary, and every one who brought a pick or a shovel was re-employed. But hundreds kept on toward Lake Bennett, and thence by water up Windy Arm to the Atlin country, and many of them have not yet returned to ...

— The Last Spike - And Other Railroad Stories • Cy Warman

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