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Definition: Blowy |
BlowyAdjective1. Abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes; "blowy weather"; "a windy bluff". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: BlowySynonyms: breezy (adj), windy (adj). (additional references) |
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 | Thundering; bitter; blowy; blustering; blustering; blustery; boisterous; cold; coming down; damp; dirty; foul; frigid; furious; gusty; howling; menacing; murky; pouring; raging; rainy; rip-roaring; roaring; savage; squally; stormful; storming; tempestuous. | | Storming; treacherous; bitter; blowy; blustering; blustering; blustery; boisterous; cold; coming down; damp; dirty; foul; frigid; furious; gusty; howling; menacing; murky; pouring; raging; rainy; rip-roaring; roaring; savage; squally; stormful; storming; . |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Blowy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Blowy" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "blowy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me erë (windy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ветровит (gusty, windy). (various references) | |
Farsi | بسهولت باطراف منتشرشونده , بادی (Pneumatic), باددار (Bloat, Puffy). (various references) | |
German | windig (windy, breezy, drafty, windily), luftig (airy, breezy, aerial, breezier). (various references) | |
Greek | ανεμώδησ (windy). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משבי (gusty, windy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | viharos (gusty, thundery, flawy, tempestuous, thunderous), szeles (gusty, perky, draughty, featherbrain, giddy-pated), huzatos (drafty, draughty). (various references) | |
Italian | ventoso (windy). (various references) | |
Manx | geayeeagh (breezy, windy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | owyblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ventoso (breezy, gusty, windy), tempestuoso (blustering, boisterous, gusty, severe, squally, stormy, tempestuous, thundery). (various references) | |
Romanian | bãtut de vânturi (weather beaten, windy), vântos (gusty). (various references) | |
Russian | ветреный (breezy, corky, featherbrain, featherbrained, feather-brained, giddy, harebrained, light-headed, scatterbrained, scatter-brained, windy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | onaj koji duva. (various references) | |
Spanish | ventoso (windy). (various references) | |
Swedish | blåsig (blistery, windy). (various references) | |
Turkish | rüzgârlı (bleak, breezy, gusty, puffy, windswept, windy). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | вітряний (airy, blowing, gusty, windy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lộng gió (wind-swept), có gió (windy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-l-o-w-y" | |
-1 letter: blow, bowl, yowl. | |
-2 letters: bow, boy, lob, low, owl, yob, yow. | |
-3 letters: bo, by, lo, ow, oy, wo, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-l-o-w-y" | |
+1 letter: blowby, blowsy, blowzy, lowboy, wobbly. | |
+2 letters: billowy, blowbys, blowfly, flyblow, lowboys, plowboy. | |
+3 letters: avowably, blowsily, blowzily, bowingly, flyblown, flyblows, lobbygow, plowboys, sowbelly. | |
+4 letters: allowably, lobbygows, wolfberry. | |
+5 letters: flyblowing. | |
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