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Windiness   Listen
noun
Windiness  n.  
1.
The quality or state of being windy or tempestuous; as, the windiness of the weather or the season.
2.
Fullness of wind; flatulence.
3.
Tendency to generate wind or gas; tendency to produce flatulence; as, the windiness of vegetables.
4.
Tumor; puffiness. "The swelling windiness of much knowledge."





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"Windiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... on words and windiness, On smiles, and signs, and bladders light as air; Saying, thou fain wouldst comfort his distress, But dar'st not, canst not: nay, dear lady fair, All things are possible beneath the stress Of will, that flames above the soul's despair! Dally no ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds


Words linked to "Windiness" :   turgidness, turgidity, flatulence, verbosity, breeziness, prolixity, windy


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