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adjective

Weedy adj. (compar. weedier; superl. weediest)

Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds. "Weedy trophies."

Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn. "See from the weedy earth a rivulet break."

Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; said of colts or horses, and also of persons. (Colloq.)

Weedy adj. Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments. (R. or Colloq.) "She was as weedy as in the early days of her mourning."

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Etymology of 'Weedy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Weedy" Quotes from Famous Books

... they had were upon two points—the cleaning of the medicine bottles and surgical instruments, and the looting. But it was wonderful to see how Mahommed Seti took the kourbash at the hands of Fielding, when he shied from the medicine bottles. He could have broken, or bent double with one twist, the weedy, thin-chested Fielding. But though he saw a deadly magic and the evil eye in every stopper, and though to him the surgical instruments were torturing steels which the devil had forged for his purposes, he conquered his own prejudices so far as to assist in certain bad cases which ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... cover without a taint of decay; but I reckoned rightly that I should meet with them in the water lanes through which the machine had been driven. One large triangle in the vent of the bait was sufficient tackle. I am not certain that more elaborate flights are better anywhere; for weedy water I should have no reservation. From ten o'clock till five, with half an hour for luncheon, I toiled on, acquired a grand shoulder-ache that lasted me three days, and covered the bottom of the boat with close upon three-quarters ...

— Lines in Pleasant Places - Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler • William Senior

... had become weedy, the carriage-drive was, in places, green with moss, like the sills of the windows and the high-pitched, tiled roof itself. In the centre of the lawn, before the house, stood four great ancient yews, while all round ...

— The Doctor of Pimlico - Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime • William Le Queux

... his acknowledgment. He raised his voice in answering. "Your excellency is very good. But, faith, they're a weedy lot, not likely to be of much value in the plantation." His beady eyes scanned them again, and his contempt of them deepened the malevolence of his face. It was as if he were annoyed with them for being in no better condition. Then he beckoned forward Captain Gardner, the ...

— Captain Blood • Rafael Sabatini

... conspicuously. She ceased to exclaim with excitement over the cowboys galloping along the road on the United States side of the river, or to count the automobiles and the great alfalfa barns near small stations where black-veiled Mexican women waved sad farewells to weedy, olive-faced youths, perhaps ...

— Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

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