Crossword clues for windy
windy
- Like blustering storms
- Weather song by The Association?
- The ___ City (Chicago nickname)
- Suitable for kite flying, say
- Like weather that's bad for wearing fedoras
- Like Lethbridge
- Like days when hats fly
- Like Chicago, so they say
- Like a good day for flying a kite
- Gusting frequently
- Great weather for flying a kite
- Full of gusts
- Chicago, the -- City
- Chicago descriptor
- Chicago description
- Chicago adjective
- Bad forecast for fighting fires
- Talkative
- Blowing hard out
- Blusterous
- Prolix
- #1 song for the Association, 1967
- Boastful
- Bombastic
- Weather forecast, sometimes
- Chicago weather forecast
- Going this way and that — as might be the weather?
- Succeed despite your initially being nervous
- Weather word
- Forecast word
- Full of hot air
- March word
- Like Chicago, it's said
- Talking too much
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Windy \Wind"y\, a. [Compar. Windier; superl. Windiest.] [AS. windig.]
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Consisting of wind; accompanied or characterized by wind; exposed to wind. ``The windy hill.''
--M. Arnold.Blown with the windy tempest of my heart.
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Next the wind; windward.
It keeps on the windy side of care.
--Shak. Tempestuous; boisterous; as, windy weather.
Serving to occasion wind or gas in the intestines; flatulent; as, windy food.
Attended or caused by wind, or gas, in the intestines. ``A windy colic.''
--Arbuthnot.-
Fig.: Empty; airy. ``Windy joy.''
--Milton.Here's that windy applause, that poor, transitory pleasure, for which I was dishonored.
--South.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English windig "windy, breezy;" see wind (n.1) + -y (2). Meaning "affected by flatulence" is in late Old English. Chichago has been the Windy City since at least 1885.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. 1 accompany by wind. 2 unsheltered and open to the wind. 3 empty and lacking substance. 4 long-winded; orally verbose. 5 flatulent. 6 (context slang English) nervous, frightened. n. (context colloquial English) fart Etymology 2
a. (context of a path etc English) Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.
WordNet
adj. abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes; "blowy weather"; "a windy bluff" [syn: blowy, breezy]
using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes" [syn: long-winded, tedious, verbose, wordy]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Windy is a French racing class doublehanded dinghy created in 1962–64. Until c. 1989, about 1500–2000 were built. About half were sold in Germany. Races are held yearly, mainly in France and Germany. In 2008 new-produced boats are offered again.
There are four variants:
- Standard (1962–69), competition and leisure
- Racing (ca 1969–77), competition and touring
- Racing S (ca 1977–85?), competition
- Racing Super (ca 1985–), competition
" Windy" is a 1967 hit song written by Ruthann Friedman.
Windy may also refer to:
Windy is a 1968 studio album by Astrud Gilberto, arranged by Eumir Deodato, Don Sebesky, and Patrick Williams.
Windy is the nickname of:
- Richard Gale (British Army officer) (1896-1982), British Army general
- Windy McCall (born 1925), American former Major League Baseball relief pitcher John William McCall
- Tom O'Neill (ice hockey) (1923-1973), Canadian National Hockey League player
- Brian Windhorst (born 1978), American sportswriter
"Windy" is a pop music song written by Ruthann Friedman and recorded by The Association. Released in 1967, the song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in July of that year. Later in 1967, an instrumental version by jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery became his biggest Hot 100 hit when it peaked at #44. "Windy" was The Association's second U.S. number-one, following " Cherish" in 1966. Billboard ranked the record as the No. 4 song for 1967.
According to rumor, the original lyrics by Ruthann Friedman were about a man and The Association changed them to be about a woman.
"There are many explanations of who Windy actually was in Ruthann's life. She would have you know, she being me, Ruthann Friedman, that none of them are true. Windy was indeed a female and purely a fictitious character who popped into my head one fine day in 1967...
During the recording session the Association members, sure that they were in the middle of recording a hit, called the song writer, me again, in to sing on the fade at the end. I can be heard singing a blues harmony as the song fades out..."
Session musician Hal Blaine was brought in to play drums.
"Windy" is a song recorded by the Danish band Scarlet Pleasure. It was released on February 26, 2014 as their first official single, after an unsuccessful trip to the United States. They took back to Denmark to find success, and after just a few weeks on the Danish charts, "Windy" won the prize as P3's Uundgåelige. The song is Produced by David Mørup, Mixed by Rune Rask and Mastered by Brian Gardner, who has mastered songs for Dr. Dre, David Bowie, Eminem and many more.
Usage examples of "windy".
There is neither tree nor bush, the sky is grey, the earth buff, the air blae and windy, and clouds of coarse granitic dust sweep across the prairie and smother the settlement.
They were fast long-distance runners that could outdistance their predators only on the firm level surfaces of the windy steppes.
Candles were lit and placed on the gravestones, one for each lost soul, until by midnight the acres of graves in the Panteon Nacional were filled with thousands of candles flickering in the windy autumn darkness.
When the thing is maintained, not as a mere windy sentimentality, but with some notion of carrying it logically, the result is invariably a display of paralogy so absurd that it becomes pathetic.
Lhomo had shown us many times that it was important on dangerous and windy landing sites to separate yourself from the parawing quickly so that it did not drag you over some edge.
The hideous hall itself, all harsh angles and glaring lights and weird ricocheting reflections, and the pompous officials of the Pontifical staff in their preposterous little traditional masks, and the windy speechmaking, and the boredom, and above all the burdensome sense of the entire Labyrinth pressing down upon him like a colossal mass of stone - merely to think of it had filled him with horror.
Their descendants still plough the windy hillsides, cutting saw-logs and pulpwood on their own timber lots in the winter-time, and shopping at the Corner on Saturday nights, though many have drifted away to the States and other scenes more prosperous.
Beneath his windy presence, the cliff sheered away, the vertical drop hemmed by frost-broken stone left heaped by the force of past slides.
Basilica itself, but his senses, he knows, can no longer be trusted, for he also seems to hear the murderous cries of squealing assassins, angels fluttering and making rude windy noises overhead, and a little whistlmg sound inside his skull as though something might be boring away in there, and the blur before his eyes is throbbing as though his pulse were beating on him from without.
The manufacturing plants there on the cold, windy Falklands built Squeezer machines that would initiate, expand, or contract Squeezer bubbles.
English governess in the Tuileries garden, and when Sunday came, with a rainy, windy, dismal evening, he went with Terrapin and Co.
As the panes lightened, the musicians blew windy music from their tuned sea-shells, and above the marine chords, the weaving voice of a theremin dipped and climbed.
That moment alone, out in the open, with the strange, windy pall of night--all-enveloping, with the flares, like sheet-lightning, along the horizon, with a rumble here and a roar there, with whistling fiends riding the blackness above, with a series of popping, impelling reports seemingly close in front--that drove home to Kurt Dorn a cruel and present and unescapable reality.
There are certain of his songs, certain of his orchestral sketches, that would be virtueless enough were it not for the windy freshness that pervades them.
Her mind drifted to the bluenose season when spots of violet covered the hills above the Njarae, thriving in the windy spray of sea.