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▪ I. windy, a.|ˈwɪndɪ|
Forms: 1 windiᵹ, 1, 4 windi, 4–5 wyndi, 4–6 wyndy, 6 -die, -dye, windye, Sc. vyndie, wondie, 6–7 windie, 5– windy.
[OE. windiᵹ: see wind n.1 and -y1. Cf. MHG. windic, G. windig.]
I. Literal and directly connected senses.
1. a. Consisting of wind; of or pertaining to (the) wind; having the command of the winds, as a heathen deity; indicating or suggesting wind.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Luke viii. 23 Ða com windi yst. 1390Gower Conf. III. 313 The wyndy Storm began to skarse. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. viii. 48 As when a windy tempest bloweth hye. a1593Marlowe Ovid's Elegies ii. xvi, If stern Neptune's windy power prevail. 1602W. Basse Three Past. Elegies ii. (1893) 49 March, departed with his windy rage. 1617J. Taylor (Water P.) Three Weekes Observ. Ep. Ded., All the watery, windy, earthly, and drinking Deities. 1781Cowper Retirement 432 While morning kindles with a windy red. 1873Black Pr. Thule vi. 89 The sea that lay beyond..was of a windy green.
b. Produced, or actuated, by ‘wind’ or compressed air: said of music played on wind-instruments, or of a wind-instrument.
1841Thackeray Mem. Gormandising Wks. 1900 XIII. 576 Music, whether windy or wiry. 1871Longfellow Wayside Inn ii. Cobbler of Hagenau 45 Two angels carved in wood, That by the windy organ stood.
2. a. Of places, etc.: Full of, exposed to, blown upon or through by the wind.
Beowulf 1358 Windiᵹe næssas. c1000ælfric Hom. II. 322 Heora wyrtruma bið swa-swa windiᵹe ysla. 1483Cath. Angl. 419/1 Wyndy, ventosus, ventuosus. 1552Huloet, Wyndy houses, or places. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 279 A coulde and wyndy clime. 1573Satir. Poems Reform. xxxix. 350 Then wes he worsland our ane wondie swyre. a1593Marlowe & Nashe Dido i. i, Iuno..Made Hebe to direct her ayrie wheeles Into the windie countrie of the clowdes. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 440 On this windie Sea of Land, the Fiend Walk'd up and down. 1833Tennyson May Queen, New-Year's Eve v, The building rook 'ill caw from the windy tall elm-tree. 1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 191 As he paces the windy deck. 1873Longfellow Wayside Inn, Monk of Casal-Maggiore 84 My wretched lodging in a windy shed.
b. Of times, conditions, etc.: Characterized by wind, in which wind is frequent or prevalent; accompanied by (much) wind.
c1000Sax. Leechd. III. 162 Windiᵹ lengten & reniᵹ sumer. 1431Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 2 Toward the ende of wyndy Februarie. 1579J. Dee Diary (Camden) 5 A moyst Marche and not wyndy. 1600Surflet Country Farm v. viii. 671 Windie drouthes. 1685in Verney Mem. (1904) II. 382 The wettest & the windiest day that I have seene. 1749Fielding Tom Jones i. iii, It is a good Night, only a little rainy and windy. 1877Huxley Physiogr. 69 A windy day soon dries a wet pavement. 1904W. E. Hodgson Trout Fishing 210 Meanwhile the rain goes on: no longer a slight windy spray.
c. Stirred by or wavering in the wind; moving so as to produce a wind or current of air.
c1450tr. De Imitatione ii. vii. 47 Truste not ner leene not upon a windy rede. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. xii. 8 He..in his hand a windy fan did beare. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey vi. i, Hans quivered like a windy reed.
d. Situated towards the wind, windward: in phr. on the windy side of (fig.), so as not to be ‘scented’ and attacked by (cf. wind n.1 4), out of the reach of; away from, clear of.
In modern use echoing Shakes.
1599Shakes. Much Ado ii. i. 327 Pedro. Infaith Lady you haue a merry heart. Beatr. Yea my Lord I thanke it, poore foole it keepes on the windy side of Care. 1601― Twel. N. iii. iv. 181 Still you keepe o'th windie side of the Law: good. 1814Scott Wav. xii, He had just so much solidity as kept on the windy side of insanity. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. vii. 190 You cut off his resources; while you yourself keep on the windy side of assassination and murder.
3. Resembling the wind in storminess, quality of sound, swiftness, † changefulness, etc.
c1000ælfric Hom. II. 388 Þeah þeos woruld wede, and windiᵹe ehtnysse astyriᵹe onᵹean Cristes ᵹelaðunge. c1374Chaucer Boeth. ii. pr. viii. (1868) 6 The amyable fortune maysthow sen alwey wyndy [MS. wyndynge; uentosam] and flowynge and euere mysknowynge of hir self. 1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 51 Then with her windie sighes, and golden heares, To fan, and blow them drie againe she seekes. 1595― John ii. i. 477 Zeale now melted by the windie breath Of soft petitions. 1614Purchas Pilgrimage viii. v. (ed. 2) 756 The windy inconstancy of some of the companie. 1670Dryden Tyr. Love ii. i, A fire which every windy passion blows. 1697― æneis xii. 1227 Indu'd with windy Wings to flit in Air. 1869Mrs. Stowe Oldtown Folks xviii. (1870) 185 Polly gave a sudden windy dart from the room. 1883R. Ritchie Bk. Sibyls i. 5 The sweet windy drone of the organ. 1915Chamb. Jrnl. 20 Mar. 245/1 Singing the lines in a high, windy voice.
4. a. Characterized by, arising from, or affected with ‘wind’ (wind n.1 10) in the stomach or bowels († or other parts): = flatulent 4.
c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 214 Wiþ þa þing þe windiᵹne æþm on men wyrcen. 1563T. Gale Antidot. ii. 30 In all cold and wyndye infirmities of the brayne. 1598Marston Pygmal., Sat. iv. 151 The windie-chollicke striu'd to haue some vent. 1620Venner Via Recta viii. 185 Waterish and impure stomacks, by reason of windie crudities, wherewith they abound. 1799Underwood Dis. Childhood (ed. 4) I. 56 A costive and windy state of the bowels. 1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 348 After some windy eructations. 1889in J. Hutchinson Archives Surg. (1898) IX. 121 When well I am generally very windy.
b. Of food or drink: Causing or liable to cause ‘wind’: = flatulent 3.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. clxxxvi. (Add. MS. 27944), Newe muste is ful wyndy & smoky. 1533Elyot Cast. Helthe (1541) 28 Nauews do not nouryshe so moche as rapes, but they be euen as wyndye. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 101 They..feede on bread very black, heauy and windy. 1698Floyer Asthma ii. (1717) 25 When the Meat is crude, slimy, windy, acerb. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 494 If the food be poor and windy.
II. Figurative senses. (See also 2 d, 3.)
5. Having ‘nothing in it’, ‘airy’, intangible, empty, unsubstantial, flimsy, vain, frivolous, trifling, worthless. (Often passing into other senses; see below.) Similarly of persons (rare).
1593G. Harvey New Let. B 1, A wan, or windy Hope, is a notable breake-necke vnto itselfe. 1598Barret Theor. Warres v. v. 165 There is nothing more vniust then to make men to liue by windy words & ayre. 1601[see 6 a]. 1650Milton Tenure Kings (ed. 2) 47 Neither is Cæsar to make Warr as head of Christ'ndom, Protector of the Church, Defender of the Faith; these Titles being fals and Windie. 1693Dryden tr. Juvenal x. 219 Exchanging solid Quiet, to obtain The Windy satisfaction of the Brain. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Windy-fellow, without Sense or Reason. 1830Carlyle Ess., Richter (1840) II. 340 What a hollow, windy vacuity of internal character this indicates. 1854De Quincey War Wks. 1862 IV. 271 The windiest of levities. 1861Thackeray Four Georges iv. (1862) 193 The Prince of Wales had some windy projects of encouraging literature, science, and the arts. 1877Carlyle in Mrs. Carlyle's Lett. II. 116 note, Sending windy gossip to the newspapers.
6. a. Of speech or discourse, with various shades of meaning: Verbose, long-winded; violent, vehement; empty and high-sounding, inflated, bombastic; exaggerated, extravagant.
1382Wyclif Job xvi. 3 Whethir windi woordis [Vulg. verba ventosa] shul not han ende? 1590J. Davidson in Wodrow Soc. Misc. (1844) 517 Notwithstanding all the windye volumes written by them. 1601B. Jonson Poetaster v. iii. (1602) M 3 b, Tibullus. O, terrible, windy words! Gallus. A signe of a windy Braine. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 209 Windie and unmeasurable babbling was not long since brought to Athens out of Asia. 1660Fuller Mixt Contempl. xii. 19 By such windy particulars [he] did blow up his losses to the summe by him nominated. 1810Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1839) IV. 379 To what purpose then this windy declamation about John Calvin? 1868M. Pattison Academ. Org. v. 245 A vague and windy rhetoric has supplanted solid acquisition. 1886Illustr. Lond. News 21 Aug. 194/1 The windy speeches made at public political meetings.
b. Of a speaker or writer: Full of talk or verbiage, talkative, loquacious, long-winded; violent or extravagant in utterance, ‘blustering’; bragging, boastful (cf. 7 b).
1513Douglas æneis xi. viii. 33 Quhidder, gif thi marcial deidis, as thai war ay, Into thy wyndy clattryng toung sal be. 1581J. Hamilton Cath. Traict. in Cath. Tract. (S.T.S.) 85 Ane vyndie sophist. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, iv. iv. 127 Windy Atturnies to their Clients Woes. 1648Milton Observ. Art. Peace Wks. 1851 IV. 566 There will not need more words to this Windy Railer, convicted..of all those Crimes which he..charges upon others. 1824Scott Redgauntlet ch. x, He is a windy body when he gets on his..stories. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Windy, noisy, verbose, marvellous in narration. 1855Motley Dutch Rep. vi. ii. III. 450 The windy demagogue, who had filled half Flanders with his sound and fury.
7. a. That ‘puffs one up’; inducing pride or vain-glory. Obs. or merged in other senses.
1590Nashe Pasquils Apol. D 4 b, Let witte, which is windie obtaine the lesse, that Charitie which edifieth may gaine the more. [Cf. 1 Cor. viii. 1.] 1597J. Payne Royal Exch. 43 Puffed vp wth wynd[i]e knowledge. [1693Penn Fruits Sol. ii. cx. Wks. 1782 V. 181 We may be too easily swelled beyond our just proportion, by the windy compliments of men. 1784Cowper Task v. 269 Inflated and astrut with self-conceit, He gulps the windy diet.]
b. ‘Puffed up’; inflated with, or showing, pride or vain conceit; vain-glorious, proud. Now Sc. colloq. (const. of).
1603[see windy-headed in 9]. 1625T. Adams Five Serm., Job xlii. 6 (1626) 10 After these blustring insolencies, and windie ostentations. 1695Dryden tr. Dufresnoy's Art Paint. 63 He who has a windy Head, and flatters himself with the empty hope of deserving the praise of the common people. 1888Barrie Auld Licht Idylls ix, I'm thinking he was windier of the cock.
8. a. Apt to ‘get the wind up’; ‘funky’. slang.
1916D. Hankey Student in Arms vii. (1917) 130 The anticipation of danger makes many men ‘windy’. 1918C. J. Biddle Fighting Airman (1968) 147 He thought what made the men more ‘windy’ than anything else..was the thought of..having to lie there all day before being able to get to a doctor. a1948D. Welch Voice through Cloud (1950) iv. 39 He [sc. a patient facing an operation] laughed so much that the man with the bandaged ear became exasperated and said, ‘Why do you make so much noise? That shows you're windy. If you didn't care, you wouldn't say anything.’ 1960J. R. Ackerley We think World of You 123 'E was windy, but I swore it was safe and that nothing could 'appen. 1985D. Clark Performance ii. 40 ‘Are you feeling windy?’ ‘Do I look as if I am?’
b. Applied to a frightening or nerve-wracking place or situation. Services'.
1919Narrative Battery A, 101st Field Artillery (U.S. Artillery) 118 It was a ‘windy’ place to be.., as the enemy raked it with machine gun and trench mortar fire all day and night. 1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 305 Windy Corner,..any place specially dangerous or trying to the nerves on account of enemy fire. 1927A. M. Sullivan Old Ireland xi. 226 All the ‘windy corners’ of his front. 1928T. E. Lawrence Let. 1 May (1938) 599 Such performances require a manner to carry them off... A windy business.
9. advb. and Comb., as windy-blowing, windy clear, windy-footed (cf. 3), windy-headed (cf. 6, 7 b), windy-looking adjs.; Windy City (U.S.), a nickname for Chicago.
a1629T. Goffe Orestes ii. iii, With a North gale of *windy blowing sighs.
1887Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 31 Jan. 5/1 An alleged anarchist dynamite plot from the *Windy City. 1908K. McGaffey Show Girl 58 Chicago is surely rightly named when they call it the Windy City. 1948News-Dispatch (Michigan) 3 Apr. 9/3 The handsome Windy City youngster has an enormous following. 1979K. Bonfiglioli After you with Pistol xvi. 120 The scent of the Chicago River as it slides greasily under the nine bridges in the centre of the Windy City.
1899T. S. Moore Vinedresser, Duet iii, Cloudless eyes, blue eyes so *windy clear.
c1611Chapman Iliad xv. 163 The *windie-footed Dame.
1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 81 The great..applause of the *windie headed people.
1879Stevenson Trav. Cevennes 26 The sun had gone down into a *windy-looking mist.
▪ II. windy, a.2|ˈwaɪndɪ|
[f. wind v.1 + -y1.]
Of a road, path, etc.: that winds about; tortuous, twisting.
1972Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 4 June 11/1 One drives about five miles from the ferry slip..and down a steep windy road to a plateau above the beach. 1976Daily Tel. 15 July 2/5 The existing by-pass which is a bit windy could be improved as an adequate alternative. 1983Truckin' Life Sept. 15/2 His worst load was moving a complete school building in 1960. There were no escorts available, and the distance was 120 km on the State's windiest road.
▪ III. windy, n.1|ˈwɪndɪ|
Repr. colloq. and dial. pronunc. of window n. Cf. winder n.5
1830W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry I. 193 Will you hand me over that other clew out of the windy-stool [= window-sill] there? c1883D. Boucicault Shaughraun ii. i. 11 He got sight of my face agin the windy. 1921V. Jacob Bonnie Joann 37 Lowse ye the windy-sneck a wheen. 1977Hot Car Oct. 15/2 Another problem with fitting 'lectric windys to English cars is their narrow door design.
▪ IV. windy, n.2 N. Amer. local slang.|ˈwɪndɪ|
[f. windy a. 6 a.]
A tall story; a piece of boasting or exaggeration.
1933Amer. Speech VIII. i. 53/2 Windy,..a tall tale, a wildly unreasonable story. 1933J. V. Allen Cowboy Lore iii. 60/2 Telling a windy, telling a boastful story. 1935H. L. Davis Honey in Horn iii. 24 He could invent windies about his stand-in with the girls. |