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adjective

Seedy adj. (compar. seedier; superl. seediest)

Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.

Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; said of certain kinds of French brandy.

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."

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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Etymology of 'Seedy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Seedy" Quotes from Famous Books

... a couple of sandwiches and a flask of black coffee. I've been a bit seedy lately and I'm going to try the effects of a long walk. I may not be back ...

— The Monk of Hambleton • Armstrong Livingston

... a sweet and gentle man of about sixty years of age (not unlike in manner and habit Professor Bush, my principal at the Cedar Valley Seminary) received his seedy visitor with a kindly smile. I liked him and trusted him at once. He was tall and very thin, with dark eyes and a long gray beard. His face was absolutely without suspicion or guile. It was impossible to conceive of his doing an unkind or hasty act, and he afterward ...

— A Son of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland

... my clothes," said James. "Well, this suit and overcoat are pretty fair, but if I were a benefactor I should be wearing seedy clothes, and have my wallet stuffed with ...

— 'Doc.' Gordon • Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman

... the town any longer in that outlandish rig. Let me give you an order on the store. Dress up a little, Horace." Horace Greeley looked down on his clothes as if he had never before noticed how seedy they were, and replied: "You see, Mr. Sterrett, my father is on a new place, and I want to help him all I can." He had spent but six dollars for personal expenses in seven months, and was to receive one hundred and thirty-five from Judge J. M. Sterrett of the Erie Gazette for ...

— How to Succeed - or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune • Orison Swett Marden

... Or the simpler comes with basket and book, For herbs of power on thy banks to look; Or haply, some idle dreamer, like me, To wander, and muse, and gaze on thee. Still—save the chirp of birds that feed On the river cherry and seedy reed, And thy own wild music gushing out With mellow murmur and fairy shout, From dawn to the blush of another day, Like traveller singing along ...

— Poems • William Cullen Bryant

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