Definition of Sedy
Seed"y (?), a.
[Compar. Seedier (?);
superl. Seediest.] 1.
Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to
seeds.
2. Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be
derived from the weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain
kinds of French brandy.
3. Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless;
also, poor and miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking;
as, he looked seedy; a seedy coat. [Colloq.]
Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as
we say among us that practice the law.
Goldsmith.
Seedy toe, an affection of a horse's foot, in
which a cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the
laminæ and the wall of the hoof.
Seed"y (?), a.
[Compar. Seedier (?);
superl. Seediest.] 1.
Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to
seeds.
2. Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be
derived from the weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain
kinds of French brandy.
3. Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless;
also, poor and miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking;
as, he looked seedy; a seedy coat. [Colloq.]
Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as
we say among us that practice the law.
Goldsmith.
Seedy toe, an affection of a horse's foot, in
which a cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the
laminæ and the wall of the hoof.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
SEEDY. Poor, pennyless, stiver-cramped, exhausted.
- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)
- disreputable; run-down
They met at a seedy bar.
- full of seeds
pomegranates are as seedy as any fruit you are likely to see.
- untidy; unkempt
His seedy, dirt-smudged visage caused her to look at him askance.
- infirm; gone to seed
With her aching back and pronounced limp, she was feeling particularly seedy today.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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