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Winds vs Windy - What's the difference?

winds | windy |

As nouns the difference between winds and windy

is that winds is 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.

winds

English

Noun

(head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (wind)
  • ----

    windy

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (wind) (weather condition) + (-y).

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Accompanied by wind.
  • It was a long and windy night.
  • Unsheltered and open to the wind.
  • They made love in a windy bus shelter.
  • Empty and lacking substance.
  • They made windy promises they would not keep.
  • Long-winded; orally verbose.
  • Flatulent.
  • The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy .
  • (slang) Nervous, frightened.
  • * 1995 , (Pat Barker), The Ghost Road'', Penguin 2014 (''The Regeneration Trilogy ), p. 848:
  • 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.
    Synonyms
    * See also * See also
    Antonyms
    * (accompanied by wind) calm, windless

    Noun

    (windies)
  • (colloquial) fart
  • Etymology 2

    From + (-y).

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (of a path etc) Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.