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** English
*** Etymology
From [en].
*** Pronunciation
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*** Adjective
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1. Abounding with weeds . 2. * 1577 , [Barnabe Googe] (translator), _The Foure Bookes of Husbandry, collected by M. [Conrad Heresbach]_ , London: Richard Watkins, Book 1, p. 27, <sup> see http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A03069.0001.001 </sup> 3. *: Wheate delighteth in a leuell, riche, warme, and a drye ground: a shaddowy, WEEDY , and a hilly ground, it loueth not [...] 4. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1871 | author=w:William Cullen Bryant | chapter=The Path | title=Poems | location=New York | publisher=Appleton | page=354 | url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008395019 |passage=See, from the WEEDY earth a rivulet break<br>And purl along the untrodden wilderness;}}
1. Of, relating to or resembling weeds . 2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1894 | author=w:Catharine Parr Traill | title=Pearls and Pebbles | location=London | publisher=Sampson Low, Marston | chapter=Our Native Grasses | page=214 | url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20081015/html.php |passage=The wild rice has a peculiar WEEDY, smoky flavor, but if properly cooked is very delicious.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1925 | author=w:Aldous Huxley | title=w:Those Barren Leaves | section=Part 2, Chapter 5 | url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20160510/html.php |passage=A faint WEEDY smell came up from the river [...]}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1940 | author=w:Raymond Chandler | title=w:Farewell, My Lovely | url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20120626/html.php | chapter=5 |passage=She had WEEDY hair of that vague color which is neither brown nor blond, that hasn't enough life in it to be ginger, and isn't clean enough to be gray.}}
1. Consisting of weeds . 2. * [IV] 3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1854 | author=w:Henry David Thoreau | title=w:Walden | location=Boston | publisher=Ticknor & Fields | chapter=The Bean-Field | page=175 | url=https://archive.org/details/waldenorlifei00thor |passage=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.}}
1. * 1917 , [James Joyce] , “Flood” in _[Poetry (magazine)]_ , Volume 10, April-September, 1917, p. 73, <sup> see https://archive.org/details/poetrymag10monruoft </sup> 2. *: A waste of waters ruthlessly 3. *: Sways and uplifts its WEEDY mane, 4. *: Where brooding day stares down upon the sea 5. *: In dull disdain. 6. [en] Characteristic of a plant that grows rapidly and spreads invasively , and which grows opportunistically in cracks of sidewalks and disturbed areas. 7. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1614 | author=w:Gervase Markham | title=The Second Booke of the English Husbandman | location=London | publisher=John Browne | section=Part 2, Chapter 7, pp. 84-85 | url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06927.0001.001 |passage=[...] and so your soyle being drayned and kept dry, all those WÉEDY kindes of grasse will soone perish.}}
1. [en] Small and weak . 2. * [8] 3. * 1924 , [Edith Wharton] , _The Spark_ (The Sixties), Chapter 2, in _[Old New York (novellas)]_ , New York: 1981, p. 146, <sup> see https://archive.org/details/oldnewyork00whar </sup> 4. *: Byrne was hurling himself across the field, crouched on the neck of his somewhat WEEDY mount [...] 5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1929 | author=w:Dashiell Hammett | title=w:Red Harvest | url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20170231/html.php | chapter=2 |passage=We were about the same age. He was WEEDY, nearly a head taller than I, but fifty pounds lighter.}}
1. [en] Lacking power or effectiveness . 2. * {{ quote-journal | en | author=Juliet Woods | title=We all know fast food is bad for us | journal= [The Daily Telegraph] | date=22 June 2010 | titleurl=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/7847471/We-all-know-fast-food-is-bad-for-us.html |passage=Everything in moderation is a bit of a WEEDY call to arms, but as a rule for living it’s hard to beat.}}
1. * 2016 , [Orla Kiely] , quoted in “Designs for life from Orla Kiely,” _[Irish Independent]_ , 3 April, 2016, <sup> see https://www.independent.ie/style/fashion/designs-for-life-from-orla-kiely-34584098.html </sup> 2. *: We wanted to make sure that our jewellery made a statement, that it wasn't wimpy or WEEDY .
**** Derived terms
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**** Translations
[abounding with weeds]
- Bulgarian: [bg] - Hungarian: [hu] - Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi] [trans-bottom]
[small and weak]
- Bulgarian: [bg] - French: [fr] - German: [de] - Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi] - Portuguese: [pt] - Spanish: [es] [trans-bottom]
*** Anagrams
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