findy

From Middle English findiȝ, from Old English findiġ (“considerable, good, heavy”), perhaps of Old Norse origin. Compare Danish fyndig (“energetic, weighty”).

• Rhymes: -ɪndi

findy (comparative more findy, superlative most findy)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) full; heavy; firm; solid; substantial; plentiful

   A cold May and a windy makes the barn fat and findy.

   (old proverb)

The term findy is unfound outside the proverb.

• “findy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.