Windy vs Findy - What's the difference?
windy | findy |
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.
(obsolete) full; heavy; firm; solid; substantial
As adjectives the difference between windy and findy
is that windy is accompanied by wind while findy is full; heavy; firm; solid; substantial.As a noun windy
is fart.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.
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoAntonyms
* (accompanied by wind) calm, windlessNoun
(windies)Etymology 2
From + (-y).Adjective
(er)findy
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A cold May and a windy makes the barn fat and findy . (old proverb)