单词 | weedery |
释义 | weederyn.1 1. Weeds (weed n.1 1a(a)) collectively. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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 poetic. Obsolete. Mourning clothes.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ 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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