Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Swelling or swelled into large waves; full of billows or surges; having an appearance or effect as of billows: as, “the billowie ocean,”
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. characterized by great swelling waves or surges
Etymologies
- billow + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“_r_, or _l_, to elide the liquids is to secure a kind of billowy music of”
“The British designer sent out fetching variations on his hallmark baroque, layered silhouette: Cropped trench coats cinched tight at the waist were worn over billowy harem pants in Japanese prints or multitiered chiffon skirts.”
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“The details of the scandals may be ambiguous, but the worried expressions, their hidden shames, all presented on a tussled billowy canvas.”
“We sat outside underneath breaking billowy clouds and where the sun felt absolutely delicious.”
“I changed it to a simulation of utter simplicity: floating, blocky shapes, suspended against an uninterrupted, 360-degree blue sky, with a few billowy clouds to make for perfect flying weather.”
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“And her words are the ones I hear as my colleague talks, and I stare at the billowy clouds below.”
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“A white shirtdress with touches of black, silver and aqua was particularly billowy in shape.”
“Maria Cornejo, known for her billowy garments and graphic prints, showed her spring 2012 collection in New York on Monday.”
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“The four-time champ appeared Monday in a billowy outfit with a long zipper and V-neck front (it's her first initial, so why not?) and a large "peek-a-boo" opening (her words) in the back.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘billowy’.
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Browning words of cotton - often stic...
words that meander or have a partial dimension:
words that "catch on": peano curves: fractalitescotton, clue, filament, filaria, filum, filovirus, clod, cloud, peano curve, alveoli, nuance, noil and 122 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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Unbilby
billbergia, bibacious, bibliophile, bibble, bill, bibulous, bill medley and b..., babliaminy, bilbydactyl, bibliopole, billety, beilby's ball and 106 more...
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the most beautiful
velvet, wainwright, susurrous, nutmeg, pegasus, tintinnabular, gossamer, lyricism, rococo, townlet, prince, nymph and 139 more...
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table talk, tuneful, bestrewn, determinate fashion, unpretending, personage, duly impressed, shirring, caw, hatchet job, gummy, comely and 225 more...
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whitmanian
from the poetry and prose of walt whitman
celebrate, assume, loafe, grass, summer, distillation, atmosphere, undisguised, naked, mad, breath, loveroot and 291 more...
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cloudjuice's Words
schadenfreude, sordid, promulgate, erratic, erroneous, amalgamate, sesquipedalian, incongruous, psychosis, etymology, simulacrum, serendipity and 988 more...
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Rillons of Random Palavery
A list for terms and phrases that I haven't (yet) entered into themed lists, including my series of various 151-word Random Palavery lists. Constructions that catch my eye, ring in my ears, tease m...
ridge cucumber, co-CEO, debt worry, jackalope bustiere, gimblette, ring-biscuit, cobnut, poussoir, praire, coque rayée, rigadelle, coing and 1459 more...
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Alphaliterals
Words having the letters in alphabetical order. Only words of six or more letters are listed here.
For reverse alphabetical order see Retroliterals. For words and phrases with the vowels in a...abbess, abbott, abhors, accent, accept, access, accost, adders, adeems, aegilops, afflux, agloos and 58 more...
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fun to say
words simply fun to say and hear
avariciousness, lackadaisically, succinctly, languish, solicitousness, reverie, eviscerated, prestidigitation, squall, squanderer, contemporaneously, topographical and 54 more...
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special
euouae, facetiously, orange, cabbaged, billowy, spoonfeed, overnumerousnesses, honorificabilitud..., misconjugatedly, subcontinental, strengths, borschts and 5 more...
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words i love
Words I love for their combination of meaning and sound.
realize, presence, communion, soft, delight, peppermint, heather, wobble, billowy, reiterate, suspense, perhaps and 11 more...
Tweets
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bilby Not a bad word. Probably tattooed on Whitman's arms. Feb 6, 2010
milosrdenstvi The longest and only 7-letter alphaliteral that I actually recognised as a word. (Also bellowy, which I discount because it sounds stupid, and beefily, which I discount because I don't want to have to write this twice on two words. aegilops is the actual longest.) Feb 6, 2010
brtom Cushion me soft ... rock me in a billowy drowse ... Whitman, Song of Myself Dec 9, 2006