Thundery vs Windy - What's the difference?
thundery | windy |
(of weather) stormy, with thunder
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, passage=The only real objection to peacocks, under ordinary conditions, is the discordance of their cries, especially in thundery weather, when they scream in answer to every thunder-clap. }}
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.
As adjectives the difference between thundery and windy
is that thundery is stormy, with thunder while windy is accompanied by wind.As a noun windy is
fart.thundery
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She stood at the open door, staggering herself with this enigma, on a rainy, thundery evening.
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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.