blowy

Windy or breezy.

1789, John O’Keeffe, Modern Antiques; or, The Merry Mourners, Act II, Scene 3, in The Dramatic Works of John O’Keeffe, London, 1798, Volume I, p. 351, All my doors open! this blowy night! reminds me of the Lisbon earthquake; but my storm-cap has protected me.

[…] one blowy July afternoon, as they were going up for a potato-roast, they saw somebody moving among the trees.

Billowy, blowing or waving in the wind. (of fabric, hair, etc.)

[…] I remember now. You had the sun behind you, filtering through your amazing blowy hair, red hair […]

A panoramic view of all the lives ruined by the financial markets, from the midlevel banker just trying to meet her monthly quota to the overly loyal gangster who doesn’t realize that loud, blowy Hawaiian shirts are the opposite of subtle.

Susceptible to drifting. (of soil)

1929, U.S. Department of Agriculture Radio Service, Office of Information, Farm Science Snapshots, 19 October, 1929, And fall plowing except on blowy soils also will be good for the spring sown crops.

1938, Angus Henry McDonald, Erosion and its Control in Oklahoma Territory, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Miscellaneous Publication No. 301, p. 17, Some farmers, however, quit raising cowpeas on blowy land, because they claimed it aggravated drifting.

Alternative spelling of blowie.