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The art of looking unbothered while doing the most underrated thing: just existing comfortably.
means Light, airy, and relaxed in manner — whether describing actual wind or a person who carries themselves with easy, casual confidence.
from Built straight from 'breeze,' the gentle wind, plus the adjective-making '-y' that turns nouns into qualities (like 'rainy' or 'cloudy'). 'Breeze' itself likely came into English in the 1500s, possibly from the Old Spanish 'briza,' a cold northeast wind. The figurative sense — a person who is light and unhurried, blowing through a room like a pleasant draft — is a natural drift, the way we've long borrowed weather to describe moods.
- weather origin
- Borrowed from breeze, the wind that means business but no menace
- baseball slang
- A 'breeze' once meant a strikeout swing at nothing
- hidden effort
- Effortless style usually takes brutal amounts of effort
- old slang
- In 1900s slang, breezy meant lively and full of cheek
breezy point — neighborhood in queens, new york at the western tip of the rockaways peninsula
breezy mcflutter — character from my little pony: friendship is magic animated series