billowy

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
17
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈbɪ.ləʊ.(w)i/(UK)

Definition of billowy

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. 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.”

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Etymology

From billow + -y.

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