windy

/ˈwɪn.di/ adjective A2

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.
Flatulent. (informal) · The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy.
Nervous, frightened. (slang)

Comparative windier · Superlative windiest

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## IX WINDY NIGHTS

A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 3 · C1

“Pooh,” said Caderousse; “it is so windy that your hat can easily appear to have blown off.”

The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 687 · C1

Fall is cool and windy.

Clothes for Every Season, p. 1 · A1

Whether or not that is true, the line captures something real: a young woman on a windy beach, seeing in what she sold far more than her customers ever could.

Mary Anning, Fossil Hunter, p. 1 · C1

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