cloudy

• clowdy (Early Modern)

From Middle English cloudy (“cloudy, overcast, gloomy, dark", also "hilly, rocky”), from Old English clūdiġ (“stony, rocky”), equivalent to cloud +‎ -y.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈklaʊ̯diː/, [ˈkʰlaʊ̯dɪi̯]

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    • (t-flapping) IPA^(key): /ˈklaʊ̯ɾiː/, [ˈkʰlaʊ̯ɾɪi̯]
• (Southern US, Midland US, Mid-Atlantic US, New York City, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈklæʊ̯diː/, [ˈkʰlaʊ̯dɪi̯]
• (Pittsburgh, General South African, /aʊ̯/-monophthongization) IPA^(key): /ˈklaːdiː/, [ˈkʰlaːdɪi̯]
• Rhymes: -aʊdi
• Hyphenation: clou‧dy

cloudy (comparative cloudier, superlative cloudiest)

1. Covered with or characterised by clouds.

   Synonyms: clouded, overcast

   Antonyms: cloudless, noncloudy, unclouded, uncloudy

2. Not transparent or clear.
   • 2002, “Best Inventions of 2002”, in Time‎^[1]:

     […] aerogel resembles smoke that has been frozen into place — it's cloudy, translucent and virtually weightless.

   1. (of fruit juice) Containing pith
3. Uncertain; unclear.
4. (computing, informal) Using or relating to cloud computing.

   a cloudy infrastructure

5. (slang, archaic) shady; sketchy; suspicious
6. Having cloudlike markings.

   cloudy marble

• cloudi, clowdy, clowdie
• cludiȝ (Early Middle English)

From Old English clūdiġ; equivalent to cloud +‎ -y.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkluːdiː/

cloudy

1. Covered with or characterised by clouds; clouded.
2. Not transparent or clear; murky, gloomy.
3. (rare) Inspiring dread; scary, frightening.
4. (rare) Featuring rocks; rocky, stony.

• English: cloudy
• Scots: cluddy, cloody

• “clǒudī, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.