windy[の英語

発音

• IPA: /ˈwɪn.di/
• 韻: -ɪndi
• ハイフネーション: wind‧y

形容詞

windy (comparative windier, superlative windiest)

1. Accompanied by wind.

   Alternative form: (Internet slang, deliberate misspelling) wimdy

   Synonyms: blowy, blustery, breezy

   Antonyms: calm, windless

   It was a long and windy night.

   • 2017 June 15, Hiufu Wong, “11 extreme weather records”, in CNN‎:

     “Everybody is interested in extremes – the hottest, the wettest, the windiest – so creating a database of professionally verified records is useful in that fact alone,” says Randall Cerveny from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

   • 2019 October 24, Jack Guy, “Humid, windy days worse for pain, says new study”, in CNN‎:

     Humid, windy days with low pressure make pain worse in those with long-term health conditions, according to new research.

   • 2021 August 12, Katie Hunt, “Mammoths were the original ‘ice road truckers,’ traveling vast distances across the Arctic”, in CNN‎:

     […] Higher windier locations can some times provide a relief from these insects during the growing season.”

2. Unsheltered and open to the wind.

   They shagged in a windy bus shelter.

3. Empty and lacking substance.

   They made windy promises they would not keep.

4. Long-winded; orally verbose.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:verbose

   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 21:

     I am not come hither to contend with the King of Witchland in windy railing, but to match my strength against his, sinew against sinew.

5. (informal) Flatulent.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:flatulent

   The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy.

6. (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.

名詞

windy (plural windies)

1. (colloquial) A fart.

語源 2

From wind (“to curve, bend”) +‎ -y.

発音

• IPA: /ˈwaɪndi/

形容詞

windy (comparative windier, superlative windiest)

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

使用する際の注意点

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

派生語