south wind
/ˌsaʊθ ˈwɪnd/noun
1A wind blowing from the south.
- In Europe the south wind is typically warm and pleasant..
2 Mah-jong. Usually with capital initials. Any one of the four tiles representing this wind. Also: the player who draws such a tile at the outset of a game, or who succeeds to this designation at a later stage.
Origin
Old English; earliest use found in Corpus Glossary. From the uninflected (originally adverb) stem of south + wind.