windy

Etymology 1

From Middle English windy, from Old English windiġ (“windy”), from Proto-Germanic *windigaz (“windy”), equivalent to wind + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wiendich (“windy”), West Frisian winich (“windy”), Dutch winderig (“windy”), German Low German windig (“windy”), German windig (“windy”), Swedish vindig (“windy”), Icelandic vindugur (“windy”).

adj

1. Accompanied by wind.
   It was a long and windy night.
2. Unsheltered and open to the wind.
   They shagged in a windy bus shelter.
3. Empty and lacking substance.
   They made windy promises they would not keep.
4. Long-winded; orally verbose.
5. (informal) Flatulent.
   The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy.
6. (slang) Nervous, frightened.
   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. 1995, Pat Barker, The Ghost Road, Penguin, published 2014, The Regeneration Trilogy, page 848

noun

1. (colloquial) fart

Etymology 2

wind (“to curve, bend”) + -y

adj

1. (of a path etc) Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.