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breezy




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breezy
     1. adj. With a breeze blowing, with a lively wind, pleasantly windy.
     2. adj. (figuratively) With a cheerful, casual, lively and light-hearted manner.
breeze
     1. n. A light, gentle wind.
           The breeze rustled the papers on her desk.
     2. n. (figurative) Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.
           After studying Latin, Spanish was a breeze.
     3. n. (cricket) Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.
     4. n. Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace. See Wikipedia article on Clinker.
     5. n. An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.
           The discovery produced a breeze.
     6. v. (usually with along) To move casually, in a carefree manner.
     7. v. (weather) To blow gently.
     8. v. To take a horse under a light run in order to understand the running characteristics of the horse and to observe it while under motion.
     9. n. A gadfly; a horsefly; a strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae.
     10. v. (intransitive) To buzz.
     11. v. topics, en, Atmospheric phenomena

Example Sentences

The identity of the three men in the picture preoccupied him so much that he decided to put his speculations in a novel, a decision that attests to a certain breezy confidence beneath the modest demeanour. 



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