billowy
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 17
- Letters
- 7
/ˈbɪ.ləʊ.(w)i/(UK)
Definition of billowy
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
“He was shabby and careless, with inkstains on the sleeves of his jacket, and his cravat was large and billowy, under a chin shaped like the toe of an old boot.”
“[…] Tiare clasped me to her vast bosom, so that I seemed to sink into a billowy sea, and pressed her red lips to mine.”
“This allows the muscular man to order a suit whose jacket fits him in the chest and shoulders and is not billowy through the waist and hips; and whose trousers fit him in the waist but whose legs are not reminiscent of harem pants.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From billow + -y.
Words you can make from billowy
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