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seedy

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Seedy  \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  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 
  lamin[ae]  and  the  wall  of  the  hoof. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [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}] 
  3:  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},  {sleazy},  {sordid}, 
  {squalid}] 
  4:  weak  and  feeble;  "I'm  feeling  seedy  today"  [syn:  {debilitated}, 
  {enfeebled},  {infirm}]




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