windmilly
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[edit]windmilly (not comparable)
- (informal) Having many windmills.
- 1885, George Henry Boughton, Sketching Rambles in Holland, page 50:
- The whole united industry seemed to be thriving and flourishing, too; and when a windmilly town does flourish, it is (from a flourishy point of view) a thing to remember.
- 1895, Charles Dickens, The Uncommercial Traveller, page 149:
- A windmilly country this, though the windmills are so damp and rickety, […]