seedyadj.

Brit.

/ˈsiːdi/, U.S.

/ˈsidi/

Forms: late Middle English sedy, 1500s–1600s seedie, 1500s– seedy.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: seed n., -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < seed n. + -y suffix¹.In sense 3 with allusion to to go to seed at seed n. Phrases 1, to grow to seed at seed n. Phrases 2, to run to seed at run v. Phrasal verbs 2.

†1. Fruitful, abundant. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective]

goodeOE

broadOE

fullOE

large?c1225

rifec1225

fulsomea1325

abundanta1382

plenteousa1382

copiousc1384

plentifula1400

ranka1400

aboundc1425

affluentc1425

aboundable?1440

seedy1440

manyfulc1450

ample1472

olda1500

richa1500

flowing1526

fertilent1535

wallingc1540

copy1546

abounding1560

fat1563

numbrous1566

good, great store1569

round1592

redundant1594

fruitful1604

cornucopian1609

much1609

plenty?a1610

pukka1619

redundant1621

uberant1622

swelling1628

uberous1633

numerousa1635

superfluent1648

full tide1649

lucky1649

redounding1667

numerose1692

bumper1836

prolific1890

proliferous1915

1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Norbert (1977) l. 845 (MED) Þei made a grete hostel In whech pore men..and alle nedy Were refreschid..Of bounteuousnesse þat hous was ful sedy.

a. Bearing many seeds; full of seed.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > plant having seed > [adjective]

pippined?1440

seedy1574

seeded1610

graniferous1656

seminiferous1692

corned1800

pippy1859

spermatophytic1905

1574 J. Jones Briefe Disc. Growing & Liuing Things sig. D.iii The second alteration is partly good, partly euell.., good because it endeth in a seedy qualitie, euel bicause it is made of some parte corrupted.

c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxviii. 154 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 111 That rich land, where-ouer Nilus trailes Of his wett robe the slymy seedy train.

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxiv. 402 Forthwith they reacht the Tent..A shaggie roofe of seedy reeds, mowne from the meades.

1665 J. Rea Flora ii. xxii. 199 The seedy flowers grow clustering about the branches, like the blossoms of the Vine.

1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 298 They..run up with a great Stalk, and large, high, seedy, white, yellow Head.

1767 F. Fawkes Partridge-shooting 10 The standing corn, the seedy clover shun, And vindicate the honour of the Gun.

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 97 Thistles shake their seedy heads.

1875 J. Harris Walks with Wild Flowers 62 The leaves are often very beautiful, as well as the seedy flower.

1915 Christian Work 22 May 673/1 The umbel (or umbrella) folds up wrong side out, and makes a little nest in the brown, seedy flower head.

1990 Independent 9 Jan. 37 The orlando and seminole are seedier American tangelos.

2016 M. N. Groves Body into Balance xiv. 220 This green rosette with its seedy flower stalk pops up from cracks in the pavement and lines woodland trails.

b. Designating hops (hop n.¹ 1a) that contain seeds; of or relating to such hops. Also: designating a male hop plant. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [adjective] > of hop-plant and parts

seedy1763

lupulinic1845

housey1848

biny1881

1763 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 592/2 Return the first wort into the copper, and put into it six pounds of fine brown seedy hops.

1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 ii. 546 Difference of opinion exists among experienced planters as to the utility of the seedy or male plant.

1893 J. M. Crawford tr. Industries of Russia III. viii. 174 Hop of the region of Kostroma is of very low quality, coarse, large, poor in lupulin and very seedy.

1902 Brewers' Jrnl. Suppl. 15 Mar. 1/2 The ‘seedy’ bracteoles are erroneously, but conveniently, called the ‘petals’ of the hop by growers.

1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. viii. 181 It may pay the grower best to include in his hop garden a few male plants to supply pollen and so produce ‘seedy hops’.

1978 S. C. Brown Wine & Beers Old New Eng. iii. 63 The male seedy hop blooms are very bitter.

a. Originally: †impecunious, poor (obsolete). Now: having a run-down or dilapidated appearance, esp. in dress or decor; shabby, squalid.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > shabbily dressed

scoury?a1513

olda1616

shabby1669

dowdy1676

duddy1718

seedy1725

schleppy1966

schlubby1968

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective] > dirty and mean

ungoderlyc1400

sluttish?1529

squalid1596

scrubbing1603

sordid1611

snotty1681

frowzy1710

grub1719

seedy1725

unkempt1838

grubby1844

crumby1859

ratty1867

scruffy1871

scrutty1914

scummy1932

ribby1936

raunchy1937

sleazy1941

scroungy1948

manky1958

skanky1963

grungy1965

scungy1966

scuzzy1969

scrungy1974

skeevy1976

society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [adjective] > morally sordid

sordidous1602

sordid1636

seedy1725

sleazy1941

sleazoid1976

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > having lost freshness > shabby

shabbed1674

shabby1685

shab-rag1770

fatigued1774

slipshod1818

scuffed1827

scaly1843

seedy1868

dog-eared1872

shoddy1927

1725 New Canting Dict. Seedy, poor, Moneyless, exhausted.

1730 G. Akerby Life James Spiller 26 He stay'd there till his Pockets were quite drain'd, or, (as he himself term'd it,) he was Seedy.

1739 Joe Miller's Jests No. 158 A seedy (poor) half-pay Captain.

1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man iii. 33 He is a little seedy, as we say among us that practice the law. Not well in cloaths.

1831 W. Scott Count Robert Introd. p. xviii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. I 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.

1845 Punch 8 78 A very seedy coat will ruin the effect of a new hat.

1868 A. K. H. Boyd Lessons Middle Age 123 A very seedy little railway station, on the outskirts of a large and horribly ugly town.

1892 ‘F. Anstey’ Voces Populi 2nd Ser. 30 Seated on a Bench beside a Seedy Stranger.

1942 H. K. Smith Last Train from Berlin Epil. 263 When it was light, I would see how seedy our coach was.

1988 P. P. Read Seasons in West (1989) i. 11 An emigré from '68 who was in awe of Laura Morton because she was rich and beautiful and he was poor and seedy.

b. Morally dubious, disreputable.

ΚΠ

1870 ‘C. Hay’ Club & Drawing-room I. xvi. 313 Seedy are the reputations of the men..seedy are their characters, seedy their whole lives.

1899 Washington Post 18 June 23/1 (headline) Seedy side of sport. Gambling as it is conducted at Jackson City.

1903 Sat. Rev. 30 May 680/1 The opera world..is a seedy world, a dissolute world..of cards, dominoes, billiards, gossip, intrigue.

1962 John o' London's 10 May 456/2 A seedy..individual who makes a precarious living by writing ‘porn’.

1996 S. Lavery et al. Hamlyn Encycl. Complementary Health 54/2 The Catholic church consigned it [sc. massage therapy] to the realm of the sinful and left it with a rather seedy image.

2014 Radio Times 26 July (South/West ed.) 121/1 Punt's investigation takes him from the Yorkshire valleys to the seedy streets of Soho.

4. Unwell, indisposed, or out of sorts, esp. as a result of excessive eating or drinking; = crop-sick adj. Now somewhat archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > disordered or out of sorts

out of estatec1400

disordainedc1430

out of order1530

mistempered?1541

untemperate1541

so-soa1592

indisposed1598

discomposed1603

out of sorts1621

disorderly1655

queerish1684

out of one's gears1699

disordered1708

uneasy1725

seedy1729

queer1749

scaly1803

quisby1807

under the weather1827

all nohow1852

toneless1854

nohowish1867

chippy1868

fishy1868

off-colour1876

dicky1883

on-and-offish1888

cheap1891

crook1916

lousy1933

1729 R. Savage Author to be Lett 7 After an Evening's hard boozing, my brother Bards..have been what we call Seedy or Crop-sick.

1845 Punch 9 40/2 Young Oxford eats a wondrous meal, And drinks a lot of beer, And in the morning oftentimes, Full seedy does appear.

1847 C. Dickens Let. 19 Sept. (1981) V. 165 Have been at work all day, and am seedy in consequence.

1866 H. J. W. Buxton Mysteries of Isis 35 I shall go to bed, for I feel very seedy after this knocking about.

1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat 1 We were all feeling seedy, and we were getting nervous about it.

1958 S. J. Perelman Most of S. J. Perelman 169 Felt a trifle seedy today... Possibly I have had a surfeit of banana whip.

1984 J. Morgan Agatha Christie iii. 32 Frederick had first felt seedy while the family was in France, where he had seen a couple of doctors, one of whom diagnosed kidney disease.

2014 Manawatu (N.Z.) Standard (Nexis) 15 Nov. 20 Rebus setting out on a Saturday morning to get a haircut, wondering why he's feeling seedy..only had four pints, maybe one was bad.

†5. Of brandy: having a strong taste reminiscent of aniseed or caraway seed, deemed to spoil the flavour. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1731 P. Shaw Three Ess. Artific. Philos. ii. 133 But they have one particular expedient for such Brandies as prove foul, seedy, or retain the taste of certain weeds.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) 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.

6. Glass-making. Of glass: containing seed (minute bubbles) (see seed n. 7).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [adjective] > having marks or imperfections

seedy1849

bull's-eyed1869

1849 A. Spiers Gen. French & Eng. Dict. 563/3 Soufflure, seedy glass.

1856 H. Chance in Jrnl. Soc. Arts 15 Feb. 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 H. Chance in H. J. Powell 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.

1921 Glass Industry Jan. 2/2 It is impossible to decide off-hand what causes glass to be seedy.

2008 R. Versaci Roots of Home i. 70/1 In the trade this type of glass is called ‘seedy glass’ because of its artful imperfections.

7. Of wool: not cleared of adhering seeds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [adjective] > unmanufactured or unprocessed

uncombed1635

undighteda1646

unsalved1837

seedy1850

1850 Daily News 18 May 7/2 The small quantity of Sydney wool offered was for the most part inferior in condition, seedy and burry.

1895 Daily News 13 Nov. 9/4 Since the opening of the sales, seedy, and burry, and crossbred wools have declined ½d. per lb.

1942 NZEF Times 9 Feb. 6 The bidi-bidi season is approaching and if shearing is delayed until the wool becomes seedy, its value is expected to drop.

1995 O. J. Petrie Harvesting Textile Animal Fibres iv. 57 These grades include black, dags, seedy slipemasters, slipemaster shank wool and sweepings.

2006 Geelong (Austral.) Advertiser (Nexis) 24 Jan. 32 If you don't step in and buy now in six or eight weeks you're going to be buying autumn-shorn wool which is going to be seedy and dusty and burry.

Compounds

C1. Complementary (in sense 3).

seedy-looking adj.

ΚΠ

1829 Standard 3 Feb. The most original speaker of the day was a Mr. Grady, a rather seedy-looking sort of a pedagogue.

1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xx. 199 A precious seedy-looking customer.

2015 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 28 June 48 We found our first cache after a 20-minute search in a seedy looking street just outside the park.

C2.

seedy toe n. a condition affecting the feet of horses and donkeys in which the inner wall of the hoof becomes separated from the sole, and softened and crumbly in texture, often allowing the development of bacterial or fungal infection.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of feet or hooves

pains1440

mellitc1465

false quarter1523

gravelling?1523

founder1547

foundering1548

foot evil1562

crown scab1566

prick1566

quittor bone1566

moltlong1587

scratches1591

hoof-bound1598

corn1600

javar1600

frush1607

crepance1610

fretishing1610

seam1610

scratchets1611

kibe1639

tread1661

grease1674

gravel1675

twitter-bone1688

cleft1694

quittor1703

bleymes1725

crescent1725

hoof-binding1728

capelet1731

twitter1745

canker1753

grease-heels1753

sand-crack1753

thrush1753

greasing1756

bony hoof1765

seedy toe1829

side bone1840

cracked heel1850

mud fever1872

navicular1888

coronitis1890

toe-crack1891

flat-foot1894

1829 Veterinarian Nov. 474 This horse had had a contracted foot for many years, without lameness, and the seedy toe, perhaps, as long.

1852 W. Percivall Hippopathology IV. ii. 492 Seedy Toe..is a disease of foot consisting in a mouldering away, as though through decay, of the toe of the hoof.

1898 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport II. 519/1 ‘Seedy-toe’, another disease of the [horse's] foot, is sometimes accompanied by lameness.

1976 Horse & Hound 3 Dec. 53 (advt.) Daily use after sand-crack, seedy-toe, brittle or contracted feet, encourages the natural growth of healthy horn.

2001 Dressage June 25/3 With seedy toe—or onychomycosis—the infection causes the horn to become dry and crumbly.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	seedy
释义	seedyadj. Brit. /ˈsiːdi/, U.S. /ˈsidi/ Forms: late Middle English sedy, 1500s–1600s seedie, 1500s– seedy. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: seed n., -y suffix¹. Etymology: < seed n. + -y suffix¹.In sense 3 with allusion to to go to seed at seed n. Phrases 1, to grow to seed at seed n. Phrases 2, to run to seed at run v. Phrasal verbs 2. †1. Fruitful, abundant. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] goodeOE broadOE fullOE large?c1225 rifec1225 fulsomea1325 abundanta1382 plenteousa1382 copiousc1384 plentifula1400 ranka1400 aboundc1425 affluentc1425 aboundable?1440 seedy1440 manyfulc1450 ample1472 olda1500 richa1500 flowing1526 fertilent1535 wallingc1540 copy1546 abounding1560 fat1563 numbrous1566 good, great store1569 round1592 redundant1594 fruitful1604 cornucopian1609 much1609 plenty?a1610 pukka1619 redundant1621 uberant1622 swelling1628 uberous1633 numerousa1635 superfluent1648 full tide1649 lucky1649 redounding1667 numerose1692 bumper1836 prolific1890 proliferous1915 1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Norbert (1977) l. 845 (MED) Þei made a grete hostel In whech pore men..and alle nedy Were refreschid..Of bounteuousnesse þat hous was ful sedy. 2. a. Bearing many seeds; full of seed. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > plant having seed > [adjective] pippined?1440 seedy1574 seeded1610 graniferous1656 seminiferous1692 corned1800 pippy1859 spermatophytic1905 1574 J. Jones Briefe Disc. Growing & Liuing Things sig. D.iii The second alteration is partly good, partly euell.., good because it endeth in a seedy qualitie, euel bicause it is made of some parte corrupted. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxviii. 154 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 111 That rich land, where-ouer Nilus trailes Of his wett robe the slymy seedy train. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxiv. 402 Forthwith they reacht the Tent..A shaggie roofe of seedy reeds, mowne from the meades. 1665 J. Rea Flora ii. xxii. 199 The seedy flowers grow clustering about the branches, like the blossoms of the Vine. 1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 298 They..run up with a great Stalk, and large, high, seedy, white, yellow Head. 1767 F. Fawkes Partridge-shooting 10 The standing corn, the seedy clover shun, And vindicate the honour of the Gun. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 97 Thistles shake their seedy heads. 1875 J. Harris Walks with Wild Flowers 62 The leaves are often very beautiful, as well as the seedy flower. 1915 Christian Work 22 May 673/1 The umbel (or umbrella) folds up wrong side out, and makes a little nest in the brown, seedy flower head. 1990 Independent 9 Jan. 37 The orlando and seminole are seedier American tangelos. 2016 M. N. Groves Body into Balance xiv. 220 This green rosette with its seedy flower stalk pops up from cracks in the pavement and lines woodland trails. b. Designating hops (hop n.¹ 1a) that contain seeds; of or relating to such hops. Also: designating a male hop plant. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [adjective] > of hop-plant and parts seedy1763 lupulinic1845 housey1848 biny1881 1763 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 592/2 Return the first wort into the copper, and put into it six pounds of fine brown seedy hops. 1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 ii. 546 Difference of opinion exists among experienced planters as to the utility of the seedy or male plant. 1893 J. M. Crawford tr. Industries of Russia III. viii. 174 Hop of the region of Kostroma is of very low quality, coarse, large, poor in lupulin and very seedy. 1902 Brewers' Jrnl. Suppl. 15 Mar. 1/2 The ‘seedy’ bracteoles are erroneously, but conveniently, called the ‘petals’ of the hop by growers. 1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. viii. 181 It may pay the grower best to include in his hop garden a few male plants to supply pollen and so produce ‘seedy hops’. 1978 S. C. Brown Wine & Beers Old New Eng. iii. 63 The male seedy hop blooms are very bitter. 3. a. Originally: †impecunious, poor (obsolete). Now: having a run-down or dilapidated appearance, esp. in dress or decor; shabby, squalid. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > shabbily dressed scoury?a1513 olda1616 shabby1669 dowdy1676 duddy1718 seedy1725 schleppy1966 schlubby1968 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective] > dirty and mean ungoderlyc1400 sluttish?1529 squalid1596 scrubbing1603 sordid1611 snotty1681 frowzy1710 grub1719 seedy1725 unkempt1838 grubby1844 crumby1859 ratty1867 scruffy1871 scrutty1914 scummy1932 ribby1936 raunchy1937 sleazy1941 scroungy1948 manky1958 skanky1963 grungy1965 scungy1966 scuzzy1969 scrungy1974 skeevy1976 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [adjective] > morally sordid sordidous1602 sordid1636 seedy1725 sleazy1941 sleazoid1976 the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > having lost freshness > shabby shabbed1674 shabby1685 shab-rag1770 fatigued1774 slipshod1818 scuffed1827 scaly1843 seedy1868 dog-eared1872 shoddy1927 1725 New Canting Dict. Seedy, poor, Moneyless, exhausted. 1730 G. Akerby Life James Spiller 26 He stay'd there till his Pockets were quite drain'd, or, (as he himself term'd it,) he was Seedy. 1739 Joe Miller's Jests No. 158 A seedy (poor) half-pay Captain. 1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man iii. 33 He is a little seedy, as we say among us that practice the law. Not well in cloaths. 1831 W. Scott Count Robert Introd. p. xviii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. I 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. 1845 Punch 8 78 A very seedy coat will ruin the effect of a new hat. 1868 A. K. H. Boyd Lessons Middle Age 123 A very seedy little railway station, on the outskirts of a large and horribly ugly town. 1892 ‘F. Anstey’ Voces Populi 2nd Ser. 30 Seated on a Bench beside a Seedy Stranger. 1942 H. K. Smith Last Train from Berlin Epil. 263 When it was light, I would see how seedy our coach was. 1988 P. P. Read Seasons in West (1989) i. 11 An emigré from '68 who was in awe of Laura Morton because she was rich and beautiful and he was poor and seedy. b. Morally dubious, disreputable. ΚΠ 1870 ‘C. Hay’ Club & Drawing-room I. xvi. 313 Seedy are the reputations of the men..seedy are their characters, seedy their whole lives. 1899 Washington Post 18 June 23/1 (headline) Seedy side of sport. Gambling as it is conducted at Jackson City. 1903 Sat. Rev. 30 May 680/1 The opera world..is a seedy world, a dissolute world..of cards, dominoes, billiards, gossip, intrigue. 1962 John o' London's 10 May 456/2 A seedy..individual who makes a precarious living by writing ‘porn’. 1996 S. Lavery et al. Hamlyn Encycl. Complementary Health 54/2 The Catholic church consigned it [sc. massage therapy] to the realm of the sinful and left it with a rather seedy image. 2014 Radio Times 26 July (South/West ed.) 121/1 Punt's investigation takes him from the Yorkshire valleys to the seedy streets of Soho. 4. Unwell, indisposed, or out of sorts, esp. as a result of excessive eating or drinking; = crop-sick adj. Now somewhat archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > disordered or out of sorts out of estatec1400 disordainedc1430 out of order1530 mistempered?1541 untemperate1541 so-soa1592 indisposed1598 discomposed1603 out of sorts1621 disorderly1655 queerish1684 out of one's gears1699 disordered1708 uneasy1725 seedy1729 queer1749 scaly1803 quisby1807 under the weather1827 all nohow1852 toneless1854 nohowish1867 chippy1868 fishy1868 off-colour1876 dicky1883 on-and-offish1888 cheap1891 crook1916 lousy1933 1729 R. Savage Author to be Lett 7 After an Evening's hard boozing, my brother Bards..have been what we call Seedy or Crop-sick. 1845 Punch 9 40/2 Young Oxford eats a wondrous meal, And drinks a lot of beer, And in the morning oftentimes, Full seedy does appear. 1847 C. Dickens Let. 19 Sept. (1981) V. 165 Have been at work all day, and am seedy in consequence. 1866 H. J. W. Buxton Mysteries of Isis 35 I shall go to bed, for I feel very seedy after this knocking about. 1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat 1 We were all feeling seedy, and we were getting nervous about it. 1958 S. J. Perelman Most of S. J. Perelman 169 Felt a trifle seedy today... Possibly I have had a surfeit of banana whip. 1984 J. Morgan Agatha Christie iii. 32 Frederick had first felt seedy while the family was in France, where he had seen a couple of doctors, one of whom diagnosed kidney disease. 2014 Manawatu (N.Z.) Standard (Nexis) 15 Nov. 20 Rebus setting out on a Saturday morning to get a haircut, wondering why he's feeling seedy..only had four pints, maybe one was bad. †5. Of brandy: having a strong taste reminiscent of aniseed or caraway seed, deemed to spoil the flavour. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1731 P. Shaw Three Ess. Artific. Philos. ii. 133 But they have one particular expedient for such Brandies as prove foul, seedy, or retain the taste of certain weeds. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) 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. 6. Glass-making. Of glass: containing seed (minute bubbles) (see seed n. 7). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [adjective] > having marks or imperfections seedy1849 bull's-eyed1869 1849 A. Spiers Gen. French & Eng. Dict. 563/3 Soufflure, seedy glass. 1856 H. Chance in Jrnl. Soc. Arts 15 Feb. 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 H. Chance in H. J. Powell 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. 1921 Glass Industry Jan. 2/2 It is impossible to decide off-hand what causes glass to be seedy. 2008 R. Versaci Roots of Home i. 70/1 In the trade this type of glass is called ‘seedy glass’ because of its artful imperfections. 7. Of wool: not cleared of adhering seeds. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [adjective] > unmanufactured or unprocessed uncombed1635 undighteda1646 unsalved1837 seedy1850 1850 Daily News 18 May 7/2 The small quantity of Sydney wool offered was for the most part inferior in condition, seedy and burry. 1895 Daily News 13 Nov. 9/4 Since the opening of the sales, seedy, and burry, and crossbred wools have declined ½d. per lb. 1942 NZEF Times 9 Feb. 6 The bidi-bidi season is approaching and if shearing is delayed until the wool becomes seedy, its value is expected to drop. 1995 O. J. Petrie Harvesting Textile Animal Fibres iv. 57 These grades include black, dags, seedy slipemasters, slipemaster shank wool and sweepings. 2006 Geelong (Austral.) Advertiser (Nexis) 24 Jan. 32 If you don't step in and buy now in six or eight weeks you're going to be buying autumn-shorn wool which is going to be seedy and dusty and burry. Compounds C1. Complementary (in sense 3). seedy-looking adj. ΚΠ 1829 Standard 3 Feb. The most original speaker of the day was a Mr. Grady, a rather seedy-looking sort of a pedagogue. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xx. 199 A precious seedy-looking customer. 2015 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 28 June 48 We found our first cache after a 20-minute search in a seedy looking street just outside the park. C2. seedy toe n. a condition affecting the feet of horses and donkeys in which the inner wall of the hoof becomes separated from the sole, and softened and crumbly in texture, often allowing the development of bacterial or fungal infection. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of feet or hooves pains1440 mellitc1465 false quarter1523 gravelling?1523 founder1547 foundering1548 foot evil1562 crown scab1566 prick1566 quittor bone1566 moltlong1587 scratches1591 hoof-bound1598 corn1600 javar1600 frush1607 crepance1610 fretishing1610 seam1610 scratchets1611 kibe1639 tread1661 grease1674 gravel1675 twitter-bone1688 cleft1694 quittor1703 bleymes1725 crescent1725 hoof-binding1728 capelet1731 twitter1745 canker1753 grease-heels1753 sand-crack1753 thrush1753 greasing1756 bony hoof1765 seedy toe1829 side bone1840 cracked heel1850 mud fever1872 navicular1888 coronitis1890 toe-crack1891 flat-foot1894 1829 Veterinarian Nov. 474 This horse had had a contracted foot for many years, without lameness, and the seedy toe, perhaps, as long. 1852 W. Percivall Hippopathology IV. ii. 492 Seedy Toe..is a disease of foot consisting in a mouldering away, as though through decay, of the toe of the hoof. 1898 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport II. 519/1 ‘Seedy-toe’, another disease of the [horse's] foot, is sometimes accompanied by lameness. 1976 Horse & Hound 3 Dec. 53 (advt.) Daily use after sand-crack, seedy-toe, brittle or contracted feet, encourages the natural growth of healthy horn. 2001 Dressage June 25/3 With seedy toe—or onychomycosis—the infection causes the horn to become dry and crumbly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1440
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