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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
windy \wind"y\, a. compar. windier; superl. windiest. as.
   windig.
   1913 webster
   1. consisting of wind; accompanied or characterized by wind;
      exposed to wind. "the windy hill." --m. arnold.
      1913 webster

            blown with the windy tempest of my heart. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. next the wind; windward.
      1913 webster

            it keeps on the windy side of care.   --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. tempestuous; boisterous; as, windy weather.
      1913 webster

   4. serving to occasion wind or gas in the intestines;
      flatulent; as, windy food.
      1913 webster

   5. attended or caused by wind, or gas, in the intestines. "a
      windy colic." --arbuthnot.
      1913 webster

   6. fig.: empty; airy. "windy joy." --milton.
      1913 webster

            here's that windy applause, that poor, transitory
            pleasure, for which i was dishonored. --south.
      1913 webster
see also:
windier windiest 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
windy
     adj 1: abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes; "blowy
            weather"; "a windy bluff" syn: blowy, breezy
     2: 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
     also: windiest, windier
see also:
blowy breezy long-winded tedious verbose wordy 
windiest windier 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
162 moby thesaurus words for "windy":
   adulterated, aeolian, air-built, airish, airy, all jaw, asinine,
   attenuate, attenuated, big, blasty, bloated, blown up, blowy,
   blustering, blusterous, blustery, bombastic, boreal, breezy, brisk,
   candid, catchpenny, chatty, chimerical, cloud-built, communicative,
   conversational, cut, de longue haleine, diffuse, dilated, dilute,
   diluted, distended, drafty, dreamlike, dropsical, edematous,
   effusive, empty, enchymatous, endless, ethereal, expansive,
   extended, extravagant, fanciful, fat, fatuitous, fatuous, favonian,
   filled out, fine, flatulent, flawy, flimsy, flip, fluent, foolish,
   frank, fresh, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, fustian,
   futile, gabby, garrulous, gaseous, gassy, glib, gossamery, gossipy,
   gregarious, gushy, gusty, high-flown, high-swelling, highfalutin,
   highfaluting, idle, illusory, imaginary, inane, incrassate,
   inflated, insubstantial, lengthy, light, long, long-drawn-out,
   long-spun, long-winded, longiloquent, loquacious, mouthy,
   multiloquent, multiloquious, newsy, nugacious, nugatory, otiose,
   overblown, overtalkative, padded, phantomlike, plethoric,
   pretentious, prolix, protracted, puffed up, puffy, pursy, rare,
   rarefied, redundant, shadowy, shallow, silly, slender, slight,
   smooth, sociable, spirituous, spun-out, squally, subtile, subtle,
   superficial, swelled, swollen, talkative, talky, tall, tenuous,
   thin, thinned, thinned-out, trifling, trite, trivial, tumescent,
   tumid, turgescent, turgid, uncompact, uncompressed, unreal,
   unrelenting, unsubstantial, vacuous, vain, vapid, vaporous,
   ventose, verbose, voluble, watered, watered-down, wordy




[4] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
windy, ky
  zip codes: 42655


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