weed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wiːd/
homophone: we'd
homophone: ouid
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: weeds
Etymology: From Middle English weed, weod, from Old English wēod (“weed”), from Proto-West Germanic *weud (“weed”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jood (“weed”), West Frisian wjûd (“weed”), Dutch wied (“unwanted plant, weed”), German Low German Weed (“weed”), Old High German wiota (“fern”). See also woad.
Senses: examples: text: If it isn't in a straight line or marked with a label, it's a weed.
text: The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
ref: 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:
text: Some of the weeds that cause an undesirable flavor in milk are: onion, tarweed, scaleweed, garlic, mustard, pepper grass.
ref: 1944, Oregon. Agricultural experiment station, Circular of Information - Issues 323-395, page 3:
text: I found down at the side of the house the remains of what must have once been a kitchen garden. Everything was choked with weeds and scutch grass, but the outlines of bed and drill were still there.
ref: 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
glosses: Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.
glosses: Ellipsis of duckweed.
examples: text: one rushing forth out of the thickest weed
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 4:
text: A wild and wanton pard[…]/ Crouched fawning in the weed.
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “Œnone”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 128:
glosses: Underbrush; low shrubs.
examples: text: And I predict you will laugh harder than ever. I’m not saying I’m any funnier. I’m saying weed is now legal in D.C.
ref: 2015 March 14, Barack Obama, Remarks by the President at the 2015 Gridiron Dinner:
glosses: A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
Cannabis.
synonyms: word: bhang
word: benj
word: boo
word: broccoli
word: bud
word: buddha
word: cannabis
word: cheeba
word: choof
word: daccha
word: dank
word: devil's lettuce
word: djamba
word: doja
word: doobage
word: dope
word: endo
word: gage
word: ganja
word: ganj
word: grass
word: green
word: greenery
word: hash
word: hashish
word: hemp
word: herb
word: Mary Jane
word: MJ
word: marihoochie
word: marijuana
word: Mary Joanna
word: method
word: mezz
word: muggle
word: mull
word: pot
word: puff
word: reefer
word: sens
word: sensimillia
word: sensimilla
word: shit
word: sweetleaf
word: tea
word: Texas tea
word: trees
word: twig
word: wacky tobaccy
word: weed
word: yarndie
word: zaza
word: zombie
glosses: A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
Tobacco.
raw_tags: with the
glosses: A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
A cigar.
glosses: A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
glosses: A puny person; one who has little physical strength.
glosses: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
Derived terms: word: agueweed
word: alligator weed
word: antiweed
word: ashweed
word: assweed
word: baconweed
word: balsamweed
word: basilweed
word: beanweed
word: beetleweed
word: beggarweed
word: bellyache weed
word: billy goat weed
word: billygoat weed
word: billygoat-weed
word: bindweed
word: birdweed
word: bishopsweed
word: bishop's weed
word: bitterweed
word: blanketweed
word: bleach weed
word: blue weed
word: blueweed
word: bootlace weed
word: broadleaf weed
word: brookweed
word: broomweed
word: buchan weed
word: bugleweed
word: burrweed
word: burweed
word: butterfly weed
word: butterweed
word: buttonweed
word: Caesar weed
word: camphorweed
word: cancerweed
word: carpetweed
word: catchweed
word: chafeweed
word: chaffweed
word: cheeseweed
word: chickweed
word: chick-weed
word: clammyweed
word: clapweed
word: clearweed
word: cockweed
word: colic weed
word: consumption weed
word: cottonweed
word: cow weed
taxonomic: Phyllospora comosa
word: crayweed
word: crazyweed
word: Crofton weed
word: cudweed
word: daneweed
word: dick weed
word: dillweed
word: ditch weed
word: doorweed
word: dove weed
word: driftweed
word: dyer's weed
word: elkweed
word: famine weed
word: fanweed
word: featherweed
word: feverweed
word: fireweed
word: fitweed
word: flatweed
word: flaxweed
word: fleaweed
word: forkweed
word: frostweed
word: fuckweed
word: gas station weed
word: ghostweed
word: goatweed
word: goldenweed
word: go off into the weeds
word: gooseweed
taxonomic: Aegopodium podagraria
word: goutweed
word: grassweed
word: greenweed
word: guinea hen weed
word: gulfweed
word: gummy weed
word: gumweed
word: gutweed
word: gypsyweed
word: handweed
taxonomic: Pilosella spp.
word: hawkweed
word: hempweed
word: hogweed
word: horny goat weed
word: horseweed
word: in the weeds
word: ironweed
word: itchweed
word: Jamestown weed
word: jerkweed
word: jewelweed
word: jewel-weed
word: jimpson weed
word: jimson weed
word: joe-pye weed
word: jointweed
word: khakiweed
word: Klamath weed
taxonomic: Centaurea spp.
word: knapweed
word: knobweed
taxonomic: Polygonum spp.
word: knotweed
word: lakeweed
word: lemonweed
word: loco weed
word: loco-weed
word: matchweed
word: matweed
word: Mauritius weed
word: mayweed
word: milkweed
word: mimosa weed
word: morass-weed
word: mugweed
word: neckweed
word: notchweed
word: oarweed
word: onionweed
word: orchilla weed
word: ouid
word: outweed
word: parrot weed
word: penny weed
word: pickerel weed
word: pickerelweed
word: pickleweed
word: pigeonweed
word: pigweed
word: pilotweed
word: pineapple weed
word: pineweed
word: pinweed
word: pipeweed
word: poisonweed
word: pokeweed
word: pondweed
word: popweed
word: pukeweed
word: queenweed
word: quicksilver weed
word: rabbitweed
taxonomic: Ambrosia spp.
word: ragweed
word: rattlesnake weed
word: rattleweed
word: redweed
word: reweed
word: ribbonweed
word: richweed
word: riverweed
word: roadweed
word: rockweed
word: rosinweed
word: saltweed
word: sargasso weed
word: scaleweed
word: scorpionweed
word: scratchweed
word: sea-weed
word: seaweed
word: seepweed
word: shame weed
word: shoreweed
word: Siam weed
word: siamweed
word: sickleweed
word: silkweed
word: silverweed
word: skunkweed
word: smartweed
word: snakeweed
word: snapweed
word: sneezeweed
word: soapweed
word: sotweed
word: sot-weed
word: sourweed
word: spiritweed
word: Sputnik weed
word: squaw weed
word: squawweed
word: staggerweed
word: starweed
word: stickweed
word: stickyweed
word: stinkweed
word: stoneweed
word: strangleweed
word: Strathmore weed
word: sulfur weed
word: sulphur weed
word: sumpweed
word: superweed
word: swampweed
word: sweetweed
word: tackweed
word: tarweed
word: tasselweed
word: thimbleweed
word: torchweed
word: trumpetweed
word: tumbleweed
word: turnipweed
word: turpentine weed
word: turtleweed
word: unweed
word: velvetweed
word: vinegarweed
word: wacky weed
word: wartweed
word: waterweed
word: waxweed
word: weedable
word: weedage
word: weedaholic
word: weed-and-feed
word: weed brownie
word: weed eater
word: weedeater
word: weeder
word: weedery
english: Clinidae
translation: Clinidae
word: weedfish
word: weedful
word: weedgrown
word: weedhead
word: weed hook
word: weedicide
word: weediquette
word: weedish
word: weed killer
word: weedkiller
word: weedkilling
word: weedless
word: weedlike
word: weedling
word: weed man
word: weed number
word: weedproof
word: weedscape
word: weedsplain
word: weed torch
word: weed tree
word: weed whacker
word: weedwhacker
word: weed whip
word: weedwoman
word: weedy
word: wet weed
word: whiteweed
word: widgeonweed
word: willow-weed
word: winterweed
word: wireweed
word: witchweed
word: yaw-weed
word: yellow-weed
Related terms: grow like a weed
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