/ˈwɪn.di/
OriginFrom Middle English windy, from Old English windiġ (“windy”), from Proto-Germanic *windigaz (“windy”), equivalent to wind + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wiendich (“windy”), West Frisian winich (“windy”), Dutch winderig (“windy”), German Low German windig (“windy”), German windig (“windy”), Swedish vindig (“windy”), Icelandic vindugur (“windy”).
The “frightened” sense probably derives from the phrase have the wind up.
- Accompanied by wind.
“It was a long and windy night.”
““Everybody is interested in extremes – the hottest, the wettest, the windiest – so creating a database of professionally verified records is useful in that fact alone,” says Randall Cerveny from the W”
“Humid, windy days with low pressure make pain worse in those with long-term health conditions, according to new research.”
- Unsheltered and open to the wind.
“They shagged in a windy bus shelter.”
- Empty and lacking substance.
“They made windy promises they would not keep.”
- Long-winded; orally verbose.
“I am not come hither to contend with the King of Witchland in windy railing, but to match my strength against his, sinew against sinew.”
- informalFlatulent.
“The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy.”
- slangNervous, frightened.
“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.”
- Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.
- A locality in the Liverpool Plains council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
Formswindier(comparative) · windiest(superlative) · windies(plural)