windig

From Middle High German windic, equivalent to Wind +‎ -ig. Compare English windy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪndɪç/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪndɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)

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• Hyphenation: win‧dig

windig (strong nominative masculine singular windiger, comparative windiger, superlative am windigsten)

1. windy

   Antonym: windstill

2. (figurative, informal, of a person or undertaking) dodgy; dubious

   Synonym: zweifelhaft

   • 2021 December 29, Lisa Nienhaus et al., “Krypto-Game over”, in Die Zeit‎:

     Der Baby Doge hat wie einige der windigeren Kryptowährungen ein Feature: Wer drinbleibt, verdient am Drinbleiben.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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From Proto-Germanic *windigaz (“windy”), equivalent to wind +‎ -iġ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwin.dij/

windiġ

1. windy
2. windy, flatulent; gassy

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• Middle English: windy
  • English: windy

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “windig”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.