Meaning of WEEDY
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- [adj] having unattractive thinness; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"
- [adj] abounding with or resembling weeds; "a weedy path"; "weedy plants that take over a garden"
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| | Synonyms: | | lean, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, thin, underweight |
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\Weed"y\, a. [Compar. {Weedier}; superl. {Weediest}.]
1. Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds. ``Weedy
trophies.'' --Shak.
2. Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden;
weedy corn.
See from the weedy earth a rivulet break. --Bryant.
3. Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts or horses,
and also of persons. [Colloq.]
\Weed"y\, a.
Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments. [R. or Colloq.]
She was as weedy as in the early days of her mourning.
--Dickens.
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