'windily
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| —adj , windier, windiest | |
| 1. | of, characterized by, resembling, or relating to wind; stormy |
| 2. | swept by or open to powerful winds |
| 3. | marked by or given to empty, prolonged, and often boastful speech; bombastic: windy orations |
| 4. | void of substance |
| 5. | an informal word for flatulent |
| 6. | slang afraid; frightened; nervous |
| 'windily | |
| —adv | |
| 'windiness | |
| —n | |
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'windily
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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