Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
weedy manner.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word weedily.
Examples
-
I have a natural interest in a title like this, of course; and the cover image, inside that splendidly weedily overgrown '?'
E K Victor Pearce, Who Was Adam (1987) Adam Roberts 2010
-
I have a natural interest in a title like this, of course; and the cover image, inside that splendidly weedily overgrown '?'
Archive 2010-06-01 Adam Roberts 2010
-
This is the fourth year we have tried, and usually by now, the second month of summer, sad little stunted seedlings would have succumbed to caterpillars and neglect, and would be shriveling weedily in their pots, waiting for us to dump them in the bin.
Archive 2009-01-01 StyleyGeek 2009
-
This is the fourth year we have tried, and usually by now, the second month of summer, sad little stunted seedlings would have succumbed to caterpillars and neglect, and would be shriveling weedily in their pots, waiting for us to dump them in the bin.
At least if the academic career doesn't work out, I'll still be able to eat StyleyGeek 2009
-
He caricatured the fight for wildlife preservation — a broad-visioned tradition that spans from Henry David Thoreau to John Muir to Rachel Carson to Edward Abbey to David Brower — into something weedily hippie-dip.
Rush to Judgment Wolcott, James 2007
-
Feel not a prong'd crook'd hoe lush vines all weedily trailing;
Poems and Fragments 2006
-
Feel not a prong'd crook'd hoe lush vines all weedily trailing;
Poems and Fragments 2006
-
A documentary about the Concert For Bangladesh which followed on BBC4 straight afterwards certainly proved as much, with endless shots of Harrison weedily yelping into a microphone while prodding haplessly at his guitar.
Cover story Alistair Myles 2005
-
A documentary about the Concert For Bangladesh which followed on BBC4 straight afterwards certainly proved as much, with endless shots of Harrison weedily yelping into a microphone while prodding haplessly at his guitar.
Archive 2005-11-01 Alistair Myles 2005
-
This is the fellow who grew up in western New York not far from that 'burnt-over ground' on which so many offshoots of the Puritan decadence flourished weedily in the nineteenth century — Mormons, Spiritualists, Shakers, and the Perfectionists of the Oneida Community.
So Big Towers, Robert 1982
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.