| 释义 |
seedy, a.|ˈsiːdɪ|
[f. seed n. + -y1.]
1. a. Abounding in seed, full of seed.
1574J. Jones Nat. Beginning 25 The second alteration is partly good, partly euell.., good because it endeth in a seedy qualitie, euel because it is made of some parte corrupted. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxxviii. xx, That rich land, where over Nilus trailes Of his wett robe the slymy seedy train. c1611Chapman Iliad xxiv. 402 Forthwith they reacht the Tent..A shaggie roofe of seedy reeds, mowne from the meades. 1733W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farm. 298 They..run up with a great Stalk, and large, high, seedy, white, yellow Head. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 97 Thistles shake their seedy heads.
b. Used to designate the male hop-plant.
1848Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. IX. ii. 546 Difference of opinion exists among experienced planters as to the utility of the seedy or male plant.
2. a. Shabby, ill-looking.
App. in allusion to the appearance of a flowering plant that has run to seed.
1739Joe Miller's Jests No. 158 A seedy (poor) half-pay Captain. 1768Goldsm. Good-n. Man 111, He is a little seedy, as we say among us that practise the law. Not well in clothes. 1831Scott Ct. Rob. Introd. Addr. ⁋8 The outward man of the stranger was, in a most remarkable degree, what mine host of the Sir William Wallace, in his phraseology, calls seedy. 1837Dickens Pickw. xxx, ‘Devilish cold’, he added pettishly, ‘standing at the door, wasting one's time with such seedy vagabonds.’ 1845Punch VIII. 78 A very seedy coat will ruin the effect of a new hat. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. xii, It's a bore to have been caught in so seedy an affair. 1868Less. Midd. Age 123 A very seedy little railway station, on the outskirts of a large and horribly ugly town. 1892‘F. Anstey’ Voces Pop. Ser. ii. 30 Seated on a Bench beside a Seedy Stranger.
b. Unwell, poorly, ‘not up to the mark’, spec. as a result of excessive eating or drinking; = crop-sick a.
1729R. Savage Author to be Lett 7 After an Evening's hard boozing, my brother Bards..have been what we call Seedy or Crop-sick. 1845Punch IX. 40/2 Young Oxford eats a wondrous meal, And drinks a lot of beer, And in the morning oftentimes, Full seedy does appear. 1858Dickens Lett. (1880) II. 55 This morning I was very dull and seedy. 1866Mysteries of Isis 35, I shall go to bed, for I feel very seedy after this knocking about. 1889Jerome Three Men in Boat 1 We were all feeling seedy, and we were getting nervous about it. 1902Buchan Watcher by Threshold 169 A man who is a bit seedy.
†3. (See quot.) Obs.
1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Seedy, The French suppose that these brandies obtain the flavour which they express by this name from the weeds which grew among the vines, from whence the wine, of which this brandy was made, was pressed.
4. Glass-making. Containing ‘seed’ or minute bubbles (see seed n. 7).
1856H. Chance in Jrnl. Soc. Arts IV. 225/1 Perhaps the glass has been badly melted, and is seedy, full (that is) of little vesicles, to which the rotary motion has given a circular shape. 1883― in H. J. Powell, etc. Glass-making 121 The glass is..seedy, for the seed has not the power to collect itself into bubbles and reach the surface of the pot.
5. Of wool: Not cleared from adhering seeds.
1895Daily News 13 Nov. 9/4 Since the opening of the sales, seedy, and burry, and crossbred wools have declined ½d. per lb.
6. Comb., as seedy-looking adj.; seedy-toe, a diseased condition of a horse's foot (see quot. 1849).
1837Dickens Pickw. xx, A precious seedy-looking customer. 1849Percivall Hippopathol. IV. 492 Seedy Toe..is a disease of foot consisting in a mouldering away, as though through decay, of the toe of the hoof. 1898Encycl. Sport II. 519/1 ‘Seedy-toe’, another disease of the [horse's] foot, is sometimes accompanied by lameness. |