Windy vs Jinky - What's the difference?
windy | jinky |
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.
mazy, windy, zigzagging
* 1988 , Michael King, One of the boys?: changing views of masculinity in New Zealand , page 100:
* 1990 , Bob Ferrier, The world atlas of golf courses , page 76:
* 1999 Irish Independent - Bell rings warning over Leslie
* 2006 , Telegraph - Tevez must sharpen up before axe needs to fall
* 2007 John O'Groat Journal - Millbank Man o' Steel event brings season to a close
* 2009 Scotsman - Rugby: Victory would be perfect birthday gift
*:"Unfortunately it was my faster, jinkier pals who could get past the security guards and I'd always end up getting stopped''"
As adjectives the difference between windy and jinky
is that windy is accompanied by wind or windy can be (of a path etc) having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous while jinky is mazy, windy, zigzagging.As a noun windy
is (colloquial) 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)jinky
English
Adjective
(er)- Trap the long ball to the wing on the run, carry it down the touch-line at speed, passing the half-back with a body-swerve, take the ball almost to the corner flag, then cut inside the fullback with a jinky one-two, and place the ball [...]
- The 2nd is a jinky little 345 yards, and is anything but simple. A large eucalyptus tree on the right, 100 yards out, shuts off half of the target area from the tee. A big bunker on the left at 220 yards tightens it even further, [...]
- He's also quite jinky off his feet. He steps through tackles and offloads there are no frills. He brings other players into the game.
- Coming out second best then, he then tried a jinky dribble from right to left, only to find McCann standing in his way again.''
- Darren was the smallest on the pitch he is certainly not fazed by the bigger lads and his jinky runs regularly stretched the opposition to the limit