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blowy

American  
[bloh-ee] / ˈbloʊ i /

adjective

blowier, blowiest
  1. windy.

    a chill, blowy day.

  2. easily blown about.

    flimsy, blowy curtain material.


blowy British  
/ ˈbləʊɪ /

adjective

  1. another word for windy

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of blowy

First recorded in 1820–30; blow 2 + -y 1

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Schauffele also won The Open with a sublime 65 at a far more testing, soggy, blowy Royal Troon on the Ayrshire coast.

From BBC Dec. 23, 2024

Below, on a blowy beach, is a boy called Rudi.

From BBC Feb. 23, 2015

At the top of the BBC programme, John Inverdale welcomed us to a "grey, dreary, very cold, blowy, gusty, wet Saturday afternoon" at Murrayfield.

From The Guardian Mar. 9, 2013

Photograph: Joel Redman for the Guardian On a sunny, blowy evening in September, a new single turbine was being unveiled in the Gloucestershire village of St Briavels.

From The Guardian Nov. 30, 2012

The spare garage is sheltered, even on blowy days like today.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Real winter came to western Canada last week in the blowiest, snowiest, coldest storm since record-keeping began in 1884.

From Time Magazine Archive

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