windy

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fart. colloquial
形容词 adj.
  1. Accompanied by wind.
    — It was a long and windy night.
  2. Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.
  3. Unsheltered and open to the wind.
    — They shagged in a windy bus shelter.
  4. Empty and lacking substance.
    — They made windy promises they would not keep.
  5. Long-winded; orally verbose.
    — I am not come hither to contend with the King of Witchland in windy railing, but to match my strength against his, sinew against sinew.
  6. Flatulent. informal
    — The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy.
  7. Nervous, frightened. slang
    — 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.

词形变化

windier comparative windiest superlative windies plural windier comparative windiest superlative

词源

词源 1
From Middle English windy, from Old English windiġ (“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”).
The “frightened” sense probably derives from the phrase have the wind up.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English wind
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English windy
From wind (“to curve, bend”) + -y.
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