weedy

== English == === Etymology === From weed + -y. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈwiːdi/ Rhymes: -iːdi === Adjective === weedy (comparative weedier, superlative weediest) Abounding with weeds. 1577, Barnabe Googe (translator), The Foure Bookes of Husbandry, collected by M. Conradus Heresbachius, London: Richard Watkins, Book 1, p. 27,[1] Wheate delighteth in a leuell, riche, warme, and a drye ground: a shaddowy, weedy, and a hilly ground, it loueth not […] Of, relating to or resembling weeds. Synonym: weedlike Consisting of weeds. 1917, James Joyce, “Flood” in Poetry, Volume 10, April-September, 1917, p. 73,[7] A waste of waters ruthlessly Sways and uplifts its weedy mane, Where brooding day stares down upon the sea In dull disdain. (botany) Characteristic of a plant that grows rapidly and spreads invasively, and which grows opportunistically in cracks of sidewalks and disturbed areas. (figurative, of a person or animal) Small and weak. Synonyms: scraggy, ungainly; see also Thesaurus:scrawny 1924, Edith Wharton, The Spark (The Sixties), Chapter 2, in Old New York, New York: 1981, p. 146,[9] Byrne was hurling himself across the field, crouched on the neck of his somewhat weedy mount […] (figurative, UK, Ireland, informal) Lacking power or effectiveness. Synonyms: feeble; see also Thesaurus:weak 2016, Orla Kiely, quoted in “Designs for life from Orla Kiely,” Irish Independent, 3 April, 2016,[11] We wanted to make sure that our jewellery made a statement, that it wasn't wimpy or weedy. ==== Derived terms ==== weedily weediness weedy hawksbeard weedy sea dragon ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Dewey