windy

English

Tree on a windy day

Etymology 1

From 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”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈwɪndi/
Audio (AU) (file)
Rhymes: -ɪndi

Adjective

windy (comparative windier, superlative windiest)

Accompanied by wind.
It was a long and windy night.
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.
(informal) Flatulent.
The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy.
(slang) Nervous, frightened.
- 1995, Pat Barker, The Ghost Road, Penguin, published 2014, The Regeneration Trilogy, page 848:
  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.

Synonyms

(accompanied by wind): blowy, blustery, breezy
See also Thesaurus:verbose
See also Thesaurus:flatulent

Antonyms

(accompanied by wind): calm, windless

Translations

accompanied by wind

Albanian: me erë
Arabic: عَاصِف‎ (ʿāṣif)
Armenian: քամոտ (hy) (kʿamot)
Azerbaijani: küləkli (az)
Belarusian: ве́траны (vjétrany)
Bulgarian: ветрови́т (vetrovít)
Catalan: ventós (ca)
Chickasaw: mahli
Chinese:
Cantonese: 大風, 大风 (daai⁶ fung¹)
Hakka: 大風, 大风 (thai-fûng)
Mandarin: 大風／大风 (zh) (dàfēng)
Min Dong: 大風, 大风 (duâi-hŭng)
Min Nan: 大風, 大风 (tōa-hong)
Czech: větrný (cs)
Danish: blæsende
Dutch: winderig (nl)
Esperanto: venta (eo)
Estonian: tuuline
Finnish: tuulinen (fi)
French: venteux (fr)
Georgian: ქარიანი (kariani)
German: windig (de)
Greek: ανεμώδης (el) (anemódis)
Ancient: ἀνεμώδης (anemṓdēs), ἠνεμόεις (ēnemóeis)
Hindi: तूफ़ानी (hi) (tūfānī), हवादार (hi) (havādār)
Hungarian: szeles (hu)
Irish: gaofar
Italian: ventoso (it) m
Japanese: 風の吹く (kaze no fuku), 風の強い (kaze no tsuyoi)
Kazakh: желді (jeldı)
Khmer: ខ្យល់ខ្លាំង (khyɑlkhlang)
Korean: 바람 부는 (baram buneun)
Kyrgyz: шамалдуу (ky) (şamalduu)
Lao: ລົມແຮງ (lom hǣng)
Latin: ventōsus
Latvian: vējains
Lithuanian: vėjuotas
Macedonian: ветровит (vetrovit)
Manchu: ᡝᡩᡠ᠋ᠩᡤᡝ
Manx: geayeeagh
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: салхитай (salxitaj)
Mongolian: ᠰᠠᠯᠬᠢᠲᠠᠢ (salqitai̯)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: vindfull
Nynorsk: vindfull
Old Irish: gáethmar, gáethach
Persian: بادی‎ (fa) (bâdi)
Polish: wietrzny (pl)
Portuguese: ventoso (pt)
Romanian: vântos (ro)
Russian: ве́треный (ru) (vétrenyj)
Scottish Gaelic: gaothach, gaothmhor, gaothar
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ветро̀вит, вјетро̀вит
Roman: vetròvit (sh), vjetròvit (sh)
Slovak: veterný
Slovene: vetroven
Spanish: ventoso
Swedish: blåsig (sv)
Tajik: бодӣ (bodī)
Tatar: җилле (cille)
Thai: ลมแรง (lom-rɛɛng)
Turkish: rüzgârlı
Turkmen: şemally
Tuvan: хаттыг (xattıg)
Ukrainian: ві́тряний (vítrjanyj)
Uyghur: شاماللىق‎ (shamalliq)
Uzbek: shamolli (uz)
Vietnamese: có gió
Volapük: vienik (vo)
Welsh: gwyntog (cy)
Westrobothnian: verallt n
Yakut: тыаллаах (tıallaax)
Yiddish: ווינטיק‎ (vintik)

unsheltered and open to the wind

Chickasaw: mahli
Czech: větrný (cs)
Finnish: tuulinen (fi), tuulen pieksämä
French: venteux (fr) m, venté (fr) m
Italian: ventilato (it) m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: vindfull
Nynorsk: vindfull
Scottish Gaelic: gaothach
Swedish: blåsig (sv)

empty and lacking substance

Catalan: va (ca)
Finnish: tyhjä (fi), tuulesta temmattu (fi)
French: vain (fr)
Japanese: 空疎な (くうそな, kūso na)
Latin: vanus
Spanish: vano (es)
Swedish: tom (sv), ihålig (sv)

orally verbose — see long-winded

flatulent

Finnish: ilmavaivainen
French: venteux (fr) m
Scottish Gaelic: gaothach, gaothmhor
Spanish: flatulento

Noun

windy (plural windies)

(colloquial) fart

Translations

fart — see fart

Etymology 2

wind (“to curve, bend”) +‎ -y

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈwaɪndi/
- Audio (UK) (file)

Adjective

windy (comparative windier, superlative windiest)

(of a path etc) Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.

Usage notes

Due to ambiguity with the homograph described above, the word winding is generally preferred in print.

Translations

having many bends

Finnish: mutkainen (fi), kiemurteleva
Italian: curvoso (it)
Russian: изви́листый (ru) (izvílistyj)
Yoruba: kọ́lọkọ̀lọ