different between windy vs chilly

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English windy, from Old English windi? (“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): /?w?ndi/
• Rhymes: -?ndi

Adjective

windy (comparative windier, superlative windiest)

1. Accompanied by wind.

   It was a long and windy night.

2. Unsheltered and open to the wind.

   They made love in a windy bus shelter.

3. Empty and lacking substance.

   They made windy promises they would not keep.

4. Long-winded; orally verbose.
5. (informal) Flatulent.

   The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy.

6. (slang) Nervous, frightened.
   • 1995, Pat Barker, The Ghost Road, Penguin 2014 (The Regeneration Trilogy), p. 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

Noun

windy (plural windies)

1. (colloquial) fart

Translations

Etymology 2

wind (“to curve, bend”) +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wa?ndi/

Adjective

windy (comparative windier, superlative windiest)

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

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?t??li/
• Rhymes: -?li
• Homophones: Chile, chile, chili, chilli

Etymology 1

chill +? -y.

Adjective

chilly (comparative chillier, superlative chilliest)

1. Cold enough to cause discomfort.
2. Feeling uncomfortably cold.
3. (figuratively) Distant and cool; unfriendly.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:cold

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

See chili.

Noun

chilly (plural chillies)

2. Alternative spelling of chili.

References

• chilly in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• chilly in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.