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Windy vs Windhold - What's the difference?

windy | windhold |

As nouns the difference between windy and windhold

is that windy is (colloquial) fart while windhold is (skiing) a state in which ski lifts must stop running due to extremely windy conditions.

As an adjective windy

is accompanied by wind or windy can be (of a path etc) having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.

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.

    • windhold

    English

    Alternative forms

    * wind hold * wind-hold

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (skiing) A state in which ski lifts must stop running due to extremely windy conditions.
    • With today's fifty mile per hour winds, all the ski lifts are on windhold .

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