Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Windy or breezy.
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- adj. windy or breezy
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Windy.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Windy; blowing; breezy.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes
Etymologies
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Examples
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Snowy, blowy days halted the work and after the snow stopped, the Gang had to plow and sweep and shovel before the nail guns could bang again.
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On a blowy day in Kilburn, north London, Kalliopi Lemos, calm but purposeful, forges ahead into a large workshop beside the railway.
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"Whoa, it's blowy," he said, amazed he could speak.
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The World Series is back in this famously blowy city by the bay, and Thursday night's forecast is for wind, drizzle and temperatures in the mid-50s.
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That pretty little weatherboard building is today preserved at Old Gippstown, the Gippsland Heritage Park at Moe (rhymes with blowy) near Morwell in Victoria.
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A bright day, still blowy but with a warm west wind, everything damp and full of colour—springlike.
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Fortunately, the weather is still mild, though blowy.
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Miss Frona'd said that bedding was scarce, but it wasn't a cold night (more blowy than crisp), so he reckoned there couldn't 'a' ben much shiverin '.
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Most of the wind farms it builds won't be in the blowy Midwest.
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It is not nice to leave a warm bed and get out of a bad anchorage in a black blowy night, but we arose to the occasion, put in two reefs, and started to heave up.
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