different between wordy vs windy

English

Etymology

From Middle English wordy, woordi, from Old English wordi? (“wordy, verbose”), equivalent to word +? -y. Cognate with Icelandic orðigur (“wordy”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w?di/
• Rhymes: -??(r)di

Adjective

wordy (comparative wordier, superlative wordiest)

1. Using an excessive number of words.

   The story was long and very wordy.

Synonyms

• verbose
• pleonastic
• sesquipedalian
• See also Thesaurus:verbose
• See also Wikipedia:Wordy

Derived terms

• unwordy
• wordily
• wordiness

Translations

Anagrams

• dowry, rowdy

Middle English

Alternative forms

• woordi

Etymology

From Old English wordi?; equivalent to word +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wurdi?/, /?w?rdi?/, /?w??rdi?/

Adjective

wordy

1. (rare) wordy

Descendants

• English: wordy

References

• “w??rd?, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 February 2020.

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