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[ bil-oh-ee ] / ˈbɪl oʊ i / SEE SYNONYMS FOR billowy ON THESAURUS.COM
adjective, bil·low·i·er, bil·low·i·est.characterized by or full of billows; surging: a rough, billowy sea. Origin of billowyFirst recorded in 1605–15; billow + -y1 OTHER WORDS FROM billowybil·low·i·ness, nounWords nearby billowyBill of Rights, bill of sale, billon, billow, billow cloud, billowy, billposter, Billroth, Billroth's operation I, Billroth's operation II, billy Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for billowyI was wearing a rather huge, billowy Maxi skirt and I must have lost track of exactly where it all was while on loo. Penis Beakers and Constipated Dolls: What Mothers REALLY Want To Know|Tom Sykes|October 11, 2013|DAILY BEAST Over the plains, apparently without end, was a sea of billowy clouds, shimmering with golden and pearly lights. Your National Parks|Enos A. Mills The waving of the tree-tops is the billowy movement of a hidden delight. A Dish Of Orts|George MacDonald It looked like a billowy sea of cotton-wool, but the airmen who had just emerged from it, had no comfort in its soft embrace. Round the World in Seven Days|Herbert Strang
By-and-by this vast sheet of mist began to thicken towards the horizon, and to roll forward in billowy volumes. Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers|Thomas De Quincey With eager eyes they scanned the landscape of billowy mountains and hills to the east and south. Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6)|John McElroy
British Dictionary definitions for billowy
adjectivefull of or forming billowsa billowy sea Derived forms of billowybillowiness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to billowydistended, puffy, rising, rolling, swelling, swollen, undulating, wavy, bouncy, bouncing, bulgy, heaving, rippled, swirling, waving |