Consisting of wind; accompanied or characterized
by wind; exposed to wind. "The windy hill." --M. Arnold. [1913
Webster] Blown with the windy tempest of my heart. --Shak. [1913
Webster]
Next the wind; windward. [1913 Webster] It keeps
on the windy side of care. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Tempestuous; boisterous; as, windy weather. [1913
Webster]
Serving to occasion wind or gas in the
intestines; flatulent; as, windy food. [1913 Webster]
Attended or caused by wind, or gas, in the
intestines. "A windy colic." --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
Fig.: Empty; airy. "Windy joy." --Milton. [1913
Webster] Here's that windy applause, that poor, transitory
pleasure, for which I was dishonored. --South. [1913 Webster]
Word Net
windy adj1 abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes;
"blowy weather"; "a windy bluff" [syn: blowy, breezy]
2 using or containing too many words;
"long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective
instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy
editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes" [syn:
long-winded,
tedious, verbose, wordy] [also: windiest, windier]
Moby Thesaurus
adulterated, aeolian, air-built, airish, airy, all jaw, asinine, attenuate, attenuated, big, blasty, bloated, blown up, blowy, blustering, blusterous, blustery, bombastic, boreal, breezy, brisk, candid, catchpenny, chatty, chimerical, cloud-built, communicative, conversational, cut, de longue haleine, diffuse, dilated, dilute, diluted, distended, drafty, dreamlike, dropsical, edematous, effusive, empty, enchymatous, endless, ethereal, expansive, extended, extravagant, fanciful, fat, fatuitous, fatuous, favonian, filled out, fine, flatulent, flawy, flimsy, flip, fluent, foolish, frank, fresh, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, fustian, futile, gabby, garrulous, gaseous, gassy, glib, gossamery, gossipy, gregarious, gushy, gusty, high-flown, high-swelling, highfalutin, highfaluting, idle, illusory, imaginary, inane, incrassate, inflated, insubstantial, lengthy, light, long, long-drawn-out, long-spun, long-winded, longiloquent, loquacious, mouthy, multiloquent, multiloquious, newsy, nugacious, nugatory, otiose, overblown, overtalkative, padded, phantomlike, plethoric, pretentious, prolix, protracted, puffed up, puffy, pursy, rare, rarefied, redundant, shadowy, shallow, silly, slender, slight, smooth, sociable, spirituous, spun-out, squally, subtile, subtle, superficial, swelled, swollen, talkative, talky, tall, tenuous, thin, thinned, thinned-out, trifling, trite, trivial, tumescent, tumid, turgescent, turgid, uncompact, uncompressed, unreal, unrelenting, unsubstantial, vacuous, vain, vapid, vaporous, ventose, verbose, voluble, watered, watered-down, wordyEnglish
Etymology 1
From wind (weather condition) + -y.Pronunciation
- /ˈwɪndi/
- Rhymes with: -ɪndi
Adjective
- 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.
- Flatulent.
- The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy.
Translations
unsheltered and open to the wind
flatulent
- Finnish: ilmavaivainen
Noun
Etymology 2
From wind + -y.Pronunciation
- /ˈwaɪndi/
"Windy" is a pop music song
written by Ruthann
Friedman and recorded by The
Association. Released in 1967, the song reached
number one on the Billboard
Hot 100 in July of that year. Later in 1967, an instrumental
version by jazz guitarist Wes
Montgomery became his biggest Hot 100 hit when it peaked at
number forty-four. "Windy" was The Association's second U.S.
number-one, following "Cherish"
in 1966.
According to rumor, the original lyrics by
Ruthann Friedman were about a man, and The
Association changed them to be about a woman However, Friedman
eventually admitted that it had in fact been written about her dog,
who had "stormy eyes" and walked "down the streets of the city,
smiling at everybody she sees..."
The song was featured in an episode of The
Drew Carey Show, where the character Nigel Wick (played by
Craig
Ferguson) played it on the harp. It was also featured recently
in the second season finale of HBO's Big Love, where
Teeny Henrickson leads a children's dance troupe while the song is
playing for the annual Pioneers Festival.
Barry
Manilow and The
Association covered this song along with
Cherish on the 2006 album
The Greatest Songs of the Sixties.
The harpsichord/bass guitar riff on Windy is
similar to the guitar riff on the 1966 song Kicks by
Paul Revere and the Raiders.