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Definition: Billowy |
BillowyAdjective1. Characterized by great swelling waves or surges; "billowy storm clouds"; "the restless billowing sea"; "surging waves". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "billowy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
Synonyms: BillowySynonyms: billowing(a) (adj), surging (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Billowy |
| Specialty definitions using "billowy": adularescence. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Clouds. White billowy peak clouds on dark sky. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Clouds. High billowy clump, like an A-bomb. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Clouds. Clump of billowy clouds. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Billowy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Billowy" is used about 7 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% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "billowy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | valë-valë (wave upon wave). (various references) | |
Arabic | متلاطم كالأمواج. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хълмист (downy, hillocky, hilly, rolling), въздигащ се на вълни. (various references) | |
Czech | vzdouvající se. (various references) | |
Farsi | موج مانند, مواج (Undulatory), بادکرده (Baggy, Bouffant, Protuberant, Puffy, Turgid). (various references) | |
French | onduleux, houleux. (various references) | |
German | wogend (billowing, surging, undulating), wellig (crinkly, kinky, rolling, undulating, uneven, warped, wavily, wavy). (various references) | |
Greek | κυματώδησ (choppy, surfy, surgy, undulate, wavy), κυματοειδήσ (corrugated, moire, undulatory, wiggly). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hullámzó (surging, undulating, undulatory, wavering). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bergelombang (bumpy, surge, wavy). (various references) | |
Manx | tonnoil (undulating, waveswept), tonnagh (undulating, undulatory, waved, waveswept, wavy), freaynagh (foaming, overflowing, raging, roaring, surging, turbulent), bolgagh (abdominal, bellied, blister, bog, bulging, moss, puffy, variola). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | illowybay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | revolto. (various references) | |
Romanian | agitat (agitated, agog, angry, choppy, excited, excitedly, fevered, feverish, fractious, fretful, fussy, hectic, irritated, nervous, restless, snappish, tempestuous, unsettled), accidentat (broken, bumpy, casualty, hilly, injured, odd, rough, rugged, troubled, uneven, wounded). (various references) | |
Russian | вздымающийся (topping). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | talasast (corrugated, curly, rolling, sinuous, undulate, undulating, waved, wavy). (various references) | |
Spanish | ondulante (undulate, wavy), ondeante, hinchado (bloated, blown, bulging, cocksy, cocky, inflated, puffed, puffy, stilted, swollen), agitado (aflutter, agitated, choppy, excited, flurried, hectic, in a state, in a stew, seething, troubled). (various references) | |
Swedish | böljande (flowing, surging, wavy). (various references) | |
Turkish | dalgalı (alternating, choppy, corrugated, flowing, restless, rough, undate, undated, undulated, undulating, waved, wavy), dalga dalga yükselen. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хвилястий (anfractuose, crimpy, ripply, sinuous, undulate, undulated, waved, wavy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nổi sóng c"n, có nhiều sóng lớn. (various references) | |
Welsh | tonnog (wavy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Billowy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bellomy, Bilbow, bilow, bollow, Bullow, pillowy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "billowy" (pronounced 'Bil"low*y'): mellowly, Mellowy, Pillowy, shallowly, Willowy. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-l-l-o-w-y" | |
-1 letter: billow. | |
-2 letters: billy, blowy, lowly, willy. | |
-3 letters: bill, blow, boil, boll, bowl, illy, lily, oily, will, wily, yill, yowl. | |
-4 letters: bio, bow, boy, ill, lib, lob, low, obi, oil, owl, yob, yow. | |
-5 letters: bi, bo, by, li, lo, ow, oy, wo, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-l-l-o-w-y" | |
+1 letter: blowsily, blowzily. | |
+3 letters: flyblowing. | |
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