different between windy vs squally

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

• IPA^(key): /?skw??li/

Etymology 1

From squall +? -y; from 1719.

Adjective

squally (comparative squallier or more squally, superlative squalliest or most squally)

1. Characterized by squalls, or sudden violent bursts of wind; gusty.
   • 1759, John Lindsay, A Voyage to the Coast of Africa, In 1758, page 107:

     On the eighth of February the winds grew ?trong and ?qually, accompanied with rain and a north-we?t ?well; […] .

   • 1824, John Davy, Observations on the Specific Gravity and Temperature of Sea-Water, Made During a Voyage from Ceylon to England, in 1819 and 1820, David Brewster, Robert Jameson (editors), The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, Volume 10, page 319:

     Feb. 9. 1820. […] The night was rather squally and cloudy, with occasional showers.

   • 2011, Mary Maclaren, The Four Elizabeths, Xlibris (2011), ?ISBN, page 138:

     Within three days, having sailed into increasingly squally winds but still with extremely high temperatures, Arndell found himself kept busy with renewed bouts of seasickness.

2. Producing or characteristic of loud wails.
   • 1953, Annemarie Selinko, Désirée, William Morrow & Company (1953), page 161:

     Something whimpered in the room—high and squally.

   • 1984, Bernard Evslin, Hercules, Open Road Integrated Media (2012), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     One baby was three times as big as his brother and different in other ways. He wasn't bald and squinched and squally like most infants, but had a nimbus of red-gold hair and huge gray eyes and lay there smiling to himself.

   • 2012, Ferida Wolff, "Not My Father's Son", in Chicken Soup for the Father and Son Soul: Celebrating the Bond That Connects Generations, Open Road Integrated Media (2012), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     “Well,” he said, “if I can't have a Buick, I'll at least have a son.”

     When I was born, he very quickly saw that I was a scrawny, squally baby girl. I was not a Buick, and I was not his son.

Synonyms

• squallish

Derived terms

• squalliness

Etymology 2

Probably related to scall +? -y.

Adjective

squally (comparative squallier or more squally, superlative squalliest or most squally)

1. (Britain, obsolete) Having unproductive wet spots due to poor drainage.
2. (weaving, of cloth) Not equally good throughout; not uniform; uneven; faulty.
   • 1763, Danby Pickering, The Statutes at Large, From the First Year of Q. Mary to the Thirty-Fifth Year of Q. Elizabeth, Volume VI, Joseph Bentham (1763), page 98:

     It is enacted, That if at any time after the first day of May, any cloth or ker?ie, through the default or negligence of the carders, spinners or weavers, or any of them, shall or do prove pursy, cockly, bandy, squally or rowy by warp or woof, […]