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seedy
(encz) | seedy,plný semen Zdeněk Brož |
seedy
(encz) | seedy,zchátralý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Seedy
(gcide) | Seedy \Seed"y\, a. [Compar. Seedier; superl. Seediest.]
1. Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
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2. Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the
weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of
French brandy.
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3. Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and
miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as,
he looked seedy; a seedy coat. [Colloq.]
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Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we
say among us that practice the law. --Goldsmith.
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Seedy toe, an affection of a horse's foot, in which a
cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the
laminae and the wall of the hoof.
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seedy
(wn) | seedy
adj 1: full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig" [ant: seedless]
2: shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he
was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain [syn:
scruffy, seedy]
3: somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing
grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a
little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is
unwell and can't come to work" [syn: ailing, indisposed,
peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, {under the
weather}, seedy]
4: morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of
life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy
storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the
sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"-
James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and
betrayal" [syn: seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid,
squalid] |
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Seedy
(gcide) | Seedy \Seed"y\, a. [Compar. Seedier; superl. Seediest.]
1. Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
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2. Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the
weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of
French brandy.
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3. Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and
miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as,
he looked seedy; a seedy coat. [Colloq.]
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Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we
say among us that practice the law. --Goldsmith.
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Seedy toe, an affection of a horse's foot, in which a
cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the
laminae and the wall of the hoof.
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Seedy toe
(gcide) | Seedy \Seed"y\, a. [Compar. Seedier; superl. Seediest.]
1. Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
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2. Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the
weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of
French brandy.
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3. Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and
miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as,
he looked seedy; a seedy coat. [Colloq.]
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Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we
say among us that practice the law. --Goldsmith.
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Seedy toe, an affection of a horse's foot, in which a
cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the
laminae and the wall of the hoof.
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