What's the difference between blowy and windy?

Blowy


Definition:

  • (a.) Windy; as, blowy weather; a blowy upland.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Melwood, on a cold, blowy afternoon, with a persistent crew of autograph hunters standing outside the metal gates at the entrance.

Windy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Consisting of wind; accompanied or characterized by wind; exposed to wind.
  • (superl.) Next the wind; windward.
  • (superl.) Tempestuous; boisterous; as, windy weather.
  • (superl.) Serving to occasion wind or gas in the intestines; flatulent; as, windy food.
  • (superl.) Attended or caused by wind, or gas, in the intestines.
  • (superl.) Fig.: Empty; airy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Six bars in Chicago announced they would stop selling Russian products, and a seventh bar said it had withdrawn Stolichnaya, according to Windy City Times, a Chicago LGBT newspaper.
  • (2) ‘You help us and we’ll take care of you’: a windfall of abuse hits minorities in the Windy City – and Lee Harris Facebook Twitter Pinterest The notoriously abusive Chicago police officer Jon Burge (top) was released on Friday.
  • (3) Tom Tobler, a forecaster with MeteoGroup, the weather division of the Press Association, said: "Gusts of 50mph to 60mph are sweeping across south-west England, central England and Wales, which will see the worst of the windy weather.
  • (4) That morning, the temperature was 90 degrees, the humidity 70% and it was extremely windy – around 30mph.
  • (5) Until the final quarter San Diego had looked lost in the windy conditions at Mile High, conceding repeated neutral-zone infractions and failing to show any adventure on offense.
  • (6) It’s windy but the rain has stopped so we decide to brave Intermediate Hill, where a new lookout has been built with 360-degree views of the island.
  • (7) "It was a really difficult game because the pitch was not good and it was also very windy.
  • (8) But Met Office forecaster Callum MacColl said the relentless series of brutal storms showed no sign of letting up: "There will be more wet and windy weather from the Atlantic this week.
  • (9) For south-west England it said: "Another spell of wet and windy weather is expected to cross the area from the west during Monday.
  • (10) Billowing clouds suggest a cold, windy front moving across the desert, perhaps a haboob (intense dust storm).
  • (11) Read more The eastern state of Bihar this week took the unprecedented step of forbidding any cooking between 9am and 6pm, after accidental fires exacerbated by dry, hot and windy weather swept through shantytowns and thatched-roof houses in villages and killed 79 people.
  • (12) "Supporting Pakistan or the Windies at cricket is no more evidence that someone has failed to integrate than wearing a kilt to a wedding is proof of Jacobite sympathies.
  • (13) All parts of the country will see spells of rain at times with some dry periods, so quite unsettled and generally windy weather through the course of the weekend.
  • (14) Overnight on Wednesday the Meteo weather group recorded wind gusts of 101mph on higher ground, and the forecast for more windy conditions forced Kent police to implement an emergency measure to back up freight traffic along the M20 near Dover.
  • (15) He also plans to visit the US southern states before the hurricane season ends, to gather further evidence that 1987 was just very windy.
  • (16) Robson almost stole the thunder of Venus Williams, who beat her sister Serena in straight sets in a high quality contest in windy conditions in yesterday's final to take her fifth Wimbledon singles title and seventh Grand Slam in all.
  • (17) The future for manufacturing in the UK will look quite gloomy if we don’t exploit shale Jim Ratcliffe Moments before the Insight was due to arrive and unload its cargo, the waiting audience was told that it was just too windy to dock.
  • (18) One of the clinical features was Raynaud's phenomenon in the fingers and toes, and furthermore Raynaud's phenomenon appeared in the tongue when exposed to cold and windy weather.
  • (19) There they will be, shivering on the windy platforms of Leuchars-for-St-Andrews, standing forlornly below the train indicator at Euston, holding paper napkins filled with dripping pizzas in Leeds.
  • (20) The brutish Polish husband of A Streetcar Named Desire was much less given to windy rhetoric, or at least he remained inarticulate.

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