Weedy

Definition: Weedy

Weedy

Adjective

1. Abounding with or resembling weeds; "a weedy path"; "weedy plants that take over a garden".

2. Having unattractive thinness; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "weedy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Synonyms: Weedy

Narrowness Thinness

Emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent; lank, lanky; weedy, skinny; scrawny slinky; starved, starveling; herring gutted; worn to a shadow, lean as a rake; thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer; hatchet-faced; lantern-jawed.

Unimportance

Poor, paltry, pitiful; contemptible; (contempt); sorry, mean, meager, shabby, miserable, wretched, vile, scrubby, scrannel, weedy, scurvy, putid, beggarly, worthless, twopennyhalfpenny, cheap, trashy, catchpenny, gimcrack, trumpery; one-horse. not worth the pains, not worth while, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not worth a thought, not worth a curse, not worth a straw; Noun: beneath notice, unworthy of notice, beneath regard, unworthy of regard, beneath consideration, unworthy of consideration; de lana caprina; vain; (useless).

Books

• In the Weedy Tide Pool (reference)

• Sullen Weedy Lakes (reference)

• The weedy world of the pickerels (reference)

• Weedy me (reference)

• Weedy Rough (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Preferring woody and weedy species, goats select the young growing points first as they browse downward from the upper parts of a plant. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

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Daily the beans saw me come to their rescue armed with a hoe, and thin the ranks of their enemies, filling up the trenches with weedy dead

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Expressions using "weedy": sexually compatible weedy relative ♦ weedy water. Additional references.

Beginning with "weedy": weedy-looking.

Albanian

si fara e keqe, i plotë me bar të keq. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كثير الأعشاب. (various references)

Bulgarian 

мършав (fleshless, gaunt, lank, meager, meagre, raw boned, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, skinny, thin), буренясал (overgrown, weed-grown). (various references)

Chinese 

薉 . (various references)

Czech

plevelový, neduživý (infirm, sickly, weak), nedomrlý, chabý (faint, frail, lame, threadbare, torpid, vapid, wan). (various references)

Danish

ukrudtfyldt vandområde (weedy water). (various references)

Dutch

dichtbegroeide wateren (weedy water). (various references)

Farsi 

پرازعلف هرزه , هرز, خودرو (Automobile, Automotive, Wild), درازوباریک (Lanky, Narrow). (various references)

Finnish

umpeenkasvanut vesialue (weedy water). (various references)

French

envahi par les mauvaises herbes, couvert de mauvaises herbes. (various references)

German

verunkrautet (weedily), unkrautartig. (various references)

Greek 

υδατοσυλλογή με ανεπτυγμένη βλάστηση (weedy water). (various references)

Hungarian

gazos. (various references)

Italian

pieno di erbacce, coperto di erbacce, allampanato (gangling, lanky, lean, overgrown). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

草深い (grassy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くさぶかい (grassy). (various references)

Manx

thanney (attenuated, flimsy, hollow, hollow as friendship, lank, lanky, lean, meagre, rare, scraggy, shallow, sharp face, skinny, slender, slim, sparely built, tenuous, thin, thin as paper, thin in build, thin of liquid, watery, watery of colour, watery of soup liquid, wateryliquid, weak, weak as solution), sarkyllagh, lane farchail, feiosagh (flimsy, fragile, frail, lithe, slender, thin, thin in build, weak, weakling, weed, weed of person), farchaillagh, brouteragh. (various references)

Pig Latin

eedyway.(various references)

Portuguese

pouco robusto, magricela (scrag, scraggy, scrawny, weed), alto e muito magro. (various references)

Romanian

slãbãnog (debile, hidebound, invalid, thin, unmanly, weak, weakling), jigãrit (gaunt, scrawny, skinny), buruienos (heathy), bolnãvicios (cranky, delicate, dicky, diseased, frail, invalid, pasty, seedy, sickly, unhealthy, valetudinarian, weakly). (various references)

Russian 

заросший сорняками. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

u crnini, slabunjav, pun korova, obrastao u korov. (various references)

Swedish

spinkig (very thin, wispy), full av ogräs. (various references)

Turkish

yabani otlarla dolu, yabani ot gibi, sıska (gaunt, lank, puny, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, spare), otlarla kaplı, işe yaramaz (dud, fiddling, good for nothing, idle, it's no use, no good, noneffective, non-effective, null, of no avail, of no use, offcast, otiose, out, refuse, reject, unfit, unserviceable, useless), çiroz (bombay duck, dried cod, dried mackerel), çelimsiz (feeble, frail), ıskarta (cull, discard, reject, rejection, throw out, waste product, waster, wastrel). (various references)

Ukrainian

недолугий, засмічений (wasty). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lắm cỏ dại, còm. (various references)

Welsh

chwynnog. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "weedy": tweedy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Weedy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: edey, feedy, peedy, Weede, weedie, weedn, weedt, weeed, weery, weevy, weey, weezy, weiy, wendy, wety, Wiedig, woady, wydy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dewy, eyed, weed.

-2 letters: dee, dew, dey, dye, ewe, eye, wed, wee, wye, yew.

-3 letters: de, ed, we, ye.

+1 letter: tweedy.

+2 letters: dyeweed, mayweed, weedily, weekday.

+3 letters: bewrayed, dewberry, dyeweeds, edgeways, hawkeyed, honeydew, lawyered, mayweeds, newlywed, speedway, walleyed, weekdays, yellowed.

+4 letters: crazyweed, honeydews, midweekly, newlyweds, speedways.

+5 letters: causewayed, crazyweeds, wretchedly.