Seedy vs Seedly - What's the difference?
seedy | seedly |
disreputable, run-down, sleazy.
full of seeds.
untidy; unkempt
infirm; gone to seed.
suffering the effects of a hangover
(colloquial) Having a peculiar flavour supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; said of certain kinds of French brandy.
Of, like, or relating to seeds; producing or bearing seeds; seedy.
*1829 , Joshua Major, A treatise on the insects most prevalent on fruit trees and garden ... :
*1894 , Adolf Bastian, Zur mythologie und psychologie der Nigritier in Guinea ... :
*1916 , Southern pharmaceutical journal:
*1992 , Baltasar Gracian, wit, and the Baroque Age: a rhetorical study:
As adjectives the difference between seedy and seedly
is that seedy is disreputable, run-down, sleazy while seedly is of, like, or relating to seeds; producing or bearing seeds; seedy.seedy
English
Adjective
(er)- The healing power of alcohol only works on scrapes and nicks; and not on girls in seedy bars who drown themselves in it. (from "Choice Hops and Bottled Self Esteem" by Bayside)
- pomegranates are as seedy as any fruit you are likely to see.
- His seedy , dirt-smudged visage caused her to look at him askance.
- With her aching back and pronounced limp, she was feeling particularly seedy today.
- After last night's party we were all feeling pretty seedy .
Derived terms
* seedy toeAnagrams
*seedly
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- The Onion, while in its seedly state is liable to be injured by the Slugs.
- The Kra of the sheep, when the sheep is killed, enters a new-born lamb and the ghost-sheep goes to the deadland for the use of ghost menĀ« (s. Ellis), the Kra of the bush enters a seedly bush (the ghost-bush goes to deadland).
- After examining the contents the chemist replied: "Why, this is iron Pyrites, commonly known as fool's gold." "What is it worth?" asked the seedly individual. "Oh, about $4.00 a ton in car lots." "Just my luck," exclaimed the questioner.
- Another friend made all this explanation more detailed and informative: she added that a kiwi also looked, tasted, and was shaped like the prickly pear; she considered other details such as their sharing a seedly flesh, and their enhanced ...