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weed¹
- /wiːd/
Sounds like we'd, ouid · Rhymes with -iːd
Where it comes from
From Middle English weed, weod, from Old English wēod (“weed”), from Proto-West Germanic *weud (“weed”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jood (“weed”), West Frisian wjûd (“weed”), Dutch wied (“unwanted plant, weed”), German Low German Weed (“weed”), Old High German wiota (“fern”). See also woad.
noun weeds
- Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing. If it isn't in a straight line or marked with a label, it's a weed.
- Ellipsis of duckweed
- Underbrush; low shrubs. one rushing forth out of the thickest weed
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Cannabis.
Hold up, hey / For my niggas who be actin' too bold, take a seat / Hope you ready for the next episode / Hey, hey, hey, hey / Smoke weed every day
Similar: bhang, benj, boo, broccoli, bud, buddha, cannabis, cheeba, choof, daccha, dank, devil's lettuce
- Tobacco.
- A cigar. "If ever you smoke, my dear aunt (and I am told that many women take a quiet weed under the rose), be very careful how you choose your cigars."
- A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
- A puny person; one who has little physical strength.
- Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
weed²
- /wiːd/
Sounds like we'd, ouid · Rhymes with -iːd
Where it comes from
From Middle English weeden, weden, from Old English wēodian (“to weed”), from Proto-Germanic *weudōną (“to uproot, weed”). Cognate with West Frisian wjûde, wjudde (“to weed”),
Dutch wieden (“to weed”), German Low German weden (“to weed”).
verb weeds · weeding · weeded
- To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area (especially grass). I weeded my flower bed.
- To pilfer the best items from a collection. She now regretted much having had the case taken to the duke's, for surely it might have been weeded to very good purpose, and no one the wiser.
- To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria. We usually weed romance novels that haven't circulated in over a year.
weed³
- /wiːd/
Sounds like we'd, ouid · Rhymes with -iːd
Where it comes from
From Middle English wede, from Old English wǣd (“dress, attire, clothing, garment”), from Proto-Germanic *wēdiz, from which also wad, wadmal. Cognate with Dutch lijnwaad, Dutch gewaad, German Wat.
noun weeds
- A garment or piece of clothing. Lie here ye weedes that I diſdaine to weare, This compleat armor, and this curtle-axe Are adiuncts more beſeeming Tamburlaine.
- Clothing collectively; clothes, dress. His mother o'er her barm-cloth wide / Gazed forward somewhat timidly / The new-comer's bright weed to see.
- An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge. He wore a weed on his hat.
- A hatband. […] he was beat and retreated back to his old encampment with his weed on his hat dragging on the ground, with the loss of more than nineteen hundred men; […]
- Especially in the plural as widow's weeds: (female) mourning apparel. O Sir, if we could but see the shape of our deare Mother England, as poets are wont to give a personal form to what they please, how would she appeare, think ye, but in a mourning weed, with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing from her eyes, to behold so many of her children expos'd at
weed⁴
- /wiːd/
Sounds like we'd, ouid · Rhymes with -iːd
Where it comes from
From Scots weid, weed. The longer form weidinonfa, wytenonfa (Old Scots wedonynpha) is attested since the 1500s. Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language analyses the longer form as a compound meaning "onfa(ll) of a weed", whereas the Scottish National Dictionary/DSL considers the short form a derivative of the longer form, and derives its first element from Old English wēdan (“to be mad or delirious”), from wōd (“mad, enraged”).
noun weeds
- A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted. The patient […] aborted between the second and third month; […] felt herself so well on the second day after, that she went to the washing-green; and, on her return home in the evening, was seized with a violent rigor, which, by herself and those around her, was considered as the forerunner of a wee
- Lymphangitis in a horse.
weed⁵
- /wiːd/
Sounds like we'd, ouid · Rhymes with -iːd
Where it comes from
From the verb wee.
verb
- simple past and past participle of wee
Weed⁶
proper noun
- A city in Siskiyou County, California, United States.
- A surname.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: cannabis, marijuana, ganja, marihuana, grass, pot, smoke, skunk, dope, sess, gage, sens, mary jane, cannabis sativa, mary-jane, weedy
Translations
Every language
noun unwanted plant
| Español | mala hierba, maleza, hierbajo, yuyo, monte, yerbajo |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 잡초 japcho |
| 日本語 | 雑草 zassō |
| 中文 | 野草 yěcǎo, 雜草 /杂草 zácǎo |
| हिन्दी | खरपतवार kharpatvār |
| Kiswahili | kwekwe |
| Português | erva daninha, mato |
| Français | mauvaise herbe, chiendent, adventice |
| Deutsch | Unkraut |
| Italiano | erbaccia |
| Ελληνικά | ζιζάνιο zizánio, αγριόχορτο agrióchorto |
| Română | buruiană, bălărie |
| Русский | сорня́к sornják, со́рная трава́ sórnaja travá |
| Tiếng Việt | cỏ dại |
| العربية | عُشْبَة ضَارَّة ʕušba ḍārra |
| עברית | עֵשֶׂב שׁוֹטֶה 'ésev shoté |
noun underbrush; low shrubs
| 日本語 | 柴 shiba |
|---|
noun slang: marijuana
| Español | hierba, mota, grifa |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | クサ kusa |
| हिन्दी | गांजा gāñjā |
| Kiswahili | bangi |
| Português | maconha |
| Français | herbe, marie-jeanne, beuh |
| Deutsch | Gras |
| Italiano | maria, erba |
| Ελληνικά | χόρτο chórto, φούντα foúnta, μαύρο mávro |
| Română | iarbă |
| Русский | тра́вка trávka |
| العربية | بانْجو bānjū, حَشيش ḥašīš |
| עברית | גראס gras, ירוק yarók, וויד wid |
verb to remove weeds from
| Español | escardar, desmalezar, desbrozar, chapear, carpir, sallar |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 매다 maeda, 김매다 gimmaeda |
| 日本語 | 雑草を抜く zassō o nuku, 草取りをする kusatori o suru, 雑草をとる zassō o toru |
| 中文 | 鋤草 /锄草 chúcǎo, 除草 chúcǎo |
| Kiswahili | kwekwe |
| Português | capinar |
| Français | désherber |
| Deutsch | jäten |
| Italiano | diserbare |
| Română | plivi |
| Русский | поло́ть polótʹ, прополо́ть propolótʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | làm cỏ |
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title = {weed},
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