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billowiness

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bil⋅low⋅y

  [bil-oh-ee]
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–adjective, -low⋅i⋅er, -low⋅i⋅est.
characterized by or full of billows; surging: a rough, billowy sea.
Origin:
1605–15; billow + -y 1

Related forms:
bil⋅low⋅i⋅ness, noun
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bil·low   (bĭl'ō)   
n.  

  1. A large wave or swell of water.

  2. A great swell, surge, or undulating mass, as of smoke or sound.

v.   bil·lowed, bil·low·ing, bil·lows

v.   intr.

  1. To surge or roll in billows.

  2. To swell out or bulge: sheets billowing in the breeze.

v.   tr.
To cause to billow: wind that billowed the sails.

[From Old Norse bylgja, a wave; see bhelgh- in Indo-European roots.]
bil'low·i·ness n., bil'low·y adj.
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