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windy(1) (iou) and Insufficiency (medicine)


windy(1) (iou)



windy adjective1.

Consisting of wind; of or pertaining to the wind; resembling the wind. OE.
W. Basse March, departed with his windy rage.
b. Of Music or a musical instrument: produced or sounded by wind or air. Chiefly poet. M19.
Of a place: exposed to the wind, blown on or through by the wind, windswept. Of weather etc.: characterized by or stormy with wind. OE.
T. H. Huxley A windy day soon dries a wet pavement. Guardian The wide and windy streets of Ulan Bator.
b. Stirred by the wind; moving so as to produce a current of air. poet. LME.
a. = FLATULENT 2. OE.
b. = FLATULENT 1. LME.
Of speech, a speaker, etc.: verbose, long-winded, wordy; empty, inflated, bombastic; boastful; gen. insubstantial, trivial, worthless. LME.
Illustrated London News The windy speeches made at public political meetings. Listener Milton may be grandiloquent but he is not windy.
a. Inducing pride or vanity. obsolete exc. as passing into sense 4. L16.
b. Puffed up, inflated with pride, vain. Now Scot. E17.
a. Nervous, frightened, anxious. colloq. E20.
Daily Mirror The Liberal MPs were too windy to give him his marching orders.
b. Of a place or situation: frightening, nerve-racking. Military slang. E20.
Phrases: on the windy side of fig. so as not to be detected by, out of reach of; away from, clear of. the Windy City Chicago.
windily adverb M19.
windiness noun LME.

Insufficiency (medicine)


insufficiency


The condition of being insufficient or inadequate to the performance of the allotted duty.

Origin: L. Insufficientia, from sufficiens = sufficient