Other forms: windiest, windier
Windy means with strong air blowing. A windy day, windy conditions, it is windy out there.
In British forecasts, windy sits between breezy and gale-force, and the Beaufort scale gives the numbers. Of a place it means exposed: a windy corner, a windy hillside. Informally, windy can mean suffering from wind in the digestive sense, which is worth knowing before describing a baby. Note that there is a separate word windy, rhyming with mind, meaning full of bends — a windy road — and it is the participle of wind.
1adjectivewindyWith strong air blowing.
“It was so windy on the beach that the sand stung our legs.”
2adjectiveexposedExposed to the wind, of a place.
“The farmhouse stands on a windy hilltop with no trees around it.”
windy is a weather condition.
Old English windig is wind plus -y, the same pattern as rainy, cloudy and frosty. English builds its whole weather vocabulary from nouns and one suffix, which is why forecasts sound so plain.
Proto-Germanic
*windigaz — windy
Old English
windiġ — windy
Middle English
windy
English, today
windy
From Middle English windy, from Old English windiġ (“windy”), from Proto-Germanic windigaz (“windy”), equivalent to wind + -y. Cognate with stq wiendich (“windy”), West Frisian winich (“windy”), Dutch winderig (“windy”), German Low German windig (“windy”), German windig (“windy”), Swedish vindig (“windy”), Icelandic vindugur (“windy”). The “frightened” sense probably derives from the phrase have the wind up.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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