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windiness|ˈwɪndɪnɪs|
[f. windy a. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being windy.
1. Windy condition of the atmosphere; prevalence of windy weather.
a1687Petty Pol. Anat. (1691) 51 The windiness of the same Month was at Dublin 20 and at London but 17. 1922A. Machen Far off Things i. 10 Holborn has a certain vastness and windiness about it as the sky grows from black to grey. 1957G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. vii. 446 (heading) Windiness and area. 1971Nature 10 Dec. 345/1 The classic loess deposits in China..can probably only be explained in terms of greater windiness in the China/Gobi Desert area.
†2. Air as an ‘element’: = wind n.1 8. rare.
1587Golding De Mornay xv. 266 Neither is there any moysture, any wyndinesse [orig. flabile], or any firy matter in them.
3. a. Flatulence; concr. = wind n.1 10. Now rare.
c1450Burgh Secrees 1932 Wyn moost Reed..Take out of mesure..reyseth wyndynesse. 1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde ii. vii. (1552) 100 b, To discusse & vanquyshe ventosyte and wyndynesse. 1590P. Barrough Meth. Phisick i. i. (1596) 2 Sometime it [sc. headache] commeth..through windinesse ingendred in some part of the head, being weake. 1725Fam. Dict. s.v. Honey ⁋3, Raw Honey, by Reason of its Acrimony, loosens the Body, and causes Windiness. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 506 A temporary windiness.
b. Quality of causing or tendency to cause ‘wind’: = flatulence 2 b. Now rare.
1576[T. Twyne] Schoolemaster iii. xii. N ij, Beanes are naturally more windy then barly,..for that beanes are of a..more..grosse substance then barly, which is light and houer, and is sooner discharged of the windines. 1664Taylor in Evelyn Pomona 50 People labour to correct that windiness which they fancy to be in it [sc. cider]. 1707Mortimer Husb. 594 Ginger renders it [sc. cider] brisk, and corrects its Windiness.
4. Resemblance to, or admixture of, the sound of the wind.
1879Organ Voicing 17 Windiness. If the conveyances and wind chest holes are sound, blame attaches solely to the pipe.
5. fig. ‘Airiness’, emptiness, want of substance; inflated or verbose style.
1614Brerewood Lang. & Relig. Pref. ¶ b, His modest, and humble charity (vertues which rarely cohabite with the swelling windenesse of much knowledge). 1649E. Reynolds Hosea v. 35 Full of vanity, windinesse, vexation, disappointment. 1866Sat. Rev. 19 May 584/1 The feebleness and windiness of bad poets. |