Widdy vs Windy - What's the difference?
widdy | windy |
(Scotland) A rope or halter made of flexible twigs, or withes, as of birch.
* 1877 —
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 nouns the difference between widdy and windy
is that widdy is (scotland) a rope or halter made of flexible twigs, or withes, as of birch or widdy can be while windy is (colloquial) fart.As an adjective windy is
accompanied by wind or windy can be (of a path etc) having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.widdy
English
Etymology 1
Compare (withy).Noun
(widdies)Etymology 2
Noun
(widdies)- I'm no saucy minx and giddy—
Hussies such as them abound—
But a clean and tidy widdy
Well be-known for miles around.
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.