Garrulous vs Windy - What's the difference?
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Excessively or tiresomely talkative.
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* 1984 , "A Modern Whitman," by James Atlas. The Atlantic , Dec 1984.
(of something written or performed) Excessively wordy and rambling.
Accompanied by wind.
Unsheltered and open to the wind.
Empty and lacking substance.
Long-winded; orally verbose.
Flatulent.
(slang) Nervous, frightened.
* 1995 , (Pat Barker), The Ghost Road'', Penguin 2014 (''The Regeneration Trilogy ), p. 848:
(colloquial) fart
(of a path etc) Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.
Garrulous is a related term of windy.
As adjectives the difference between garrulous and windy
is that garrulous is excessively or tiresomely talkative while windy is accompanied by wind or windy can be (of a path etc) having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.As a noun windy is
(colloquial) fart.garrulous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Crammed with gossip, anecdotes, and confessions . . ., his garrulous , untidy narratives read like a good novel.
Synonyms
* (excessively or tiresomely talkative) (l), (l), (l), (l) * (excessively wordy and rambling) (l), (l), (l) * See also * See alsoDerived terms
* (l) * (l)windy
English
Etymology 1
From (wind) (weather condition) + (-y).Adjective
(er)- It was a long and windy night.
- They made love in a windy bus shelter.
- They made windy promises they would not keep.
- The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy .
- 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.