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单词 weedery
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weederyn.1

Brit. /ˈwiːd(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈwidəri/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: weed n.1, -ery suffix.
Etymology: < weed n.1 + -ery suffix.With sense 1 compare earlier weeding n. 1b.
1. Weeds (weed n.1 1a(a)) collectively.
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the world > plants > valued plants and weeds > [noun] > weed > collectively
weedOE
weeding1598
savagerya1616
weedery1642
roguery1763
weedage1853
weed growth1923
weed1934
the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] > bed or plot > other bed
weedery1642
spring bed1684
thorn-bed1844
1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. C8 Hard by there was a place, all covered o're With stinging nettles and such weedery.
1814 R. Southey Roderick vi. 46 The weedery which through The interstices of those neglected courts Uncheck'd had flourish'd long, and seeded there.
1837 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 4 629 Two poplars at the end of a strip of weedery.
1961 Middlesboro (Kentucky) Daily News 9 Sept. 5/1 Some glorious examples of weedery rise 10 feet into the air.
2008 Guardian (Nexis) 5 Jan. (Weekend Suppl.) 9 On the way out, Toryboy slipped on the wet leaves and tangled weedery that litter the garden path.
2. (A humorous name for) a place, esp. a garden, which is full of or overgrown with weeds.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > other types of garden
grounda1500
knot-garden1519
back-garden1535
summer garden1589
spring garden1612
spring gardena1625
water gardena1626
walled gardena1631
wildernessa1644
window garden1649
botanic garden1662
Hanging Gardens1705
winter garden1736
cottage garden1765
Vauxhall1770
English garden1771
wall garden1780
chinampa1787
moat garden1826
gardenesque1832
sunk garden1835
roof garden1844
weedery1847
wild garden1852
rootery1855
beer-garden1863
Japanese garden1863
bog-garden1883
Italian garden1883
community garden1884
sink garden1894
trough garden1935
sand garden1936
Zen garden1937
hydroponicum1938
tub garden1974
rain garden1994
1847 C. G. F. Gore Temptation & Atonem. III. v. 103 Transfer to Miss Hagerston's garden roots of the choice flowers, almost lost in the deserted weedery of the Hall.
a1890 M. North Recoll. Happy Life (1892) I. i. 29 Our garden was much of a weedery in those days at Hastings.
1906 A. H. Green-Armytage Maids of Honour 192 They then gave all their attention to the improvement of the ‘Weedery,’ which, by their combined efforts, was soon made to blossom as the rose.
1953 Moulton (Iowa) Weekly Tribune 9 Apr. From various items uncovered we're of a notion that said weedery should be named Romance Park.
2003 G. C. Nnamani Wrong Neck in Noose v. 68 Touched down somewhere at the weedery, a lush meadowy garden in the country home.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

weederyn.2

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: weed n.2, -ery suffix.
Etymology: < weed n.2 + -ery suffix.
poetic. Obsolete.
Mourning clothes.Apparently an isolated use.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > for specific purpose > mourning
clothes, habit, weeds of dole1388
clothing of carea1400
blacka1425
mourning blacka1425
mourningc1450
weedsc1485
dolec1500
care-weed?1507
sables1603
wailing robesa1616
mournings1634
penitentials1679
dismals1748
weedery1908
1908 T. Hardy Dynasts: Pt. 3rd vi. ii. 239 Even as he For whom thou wear'st that filial weedery Was waylaid by my tipstaff nine years since.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019).
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