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Seedy vs Seedly - What's the difference?

seedy | seedly |

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)
  • disreputable, run-down, sleazy.
  • 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)
  • full of seeds.
  • pomegranates are as seedy as any fruit you are likely to see.
  • untidy; unkempt
  • His seedy , dirt-smudged visage caused her to look at him askance.
  • infirm; gone to seed.
  • With her aching back and pronounced limp, she was feeling particularly seedy today.
  • suffering the effects of a hangover
  • After last night's party we were all feeling pretty seedy .
  • (colloquial) Having a peculiar flavour supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; said of certain kinds of French brandy.
  • Derived terms

    * seedy toe

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    seedly

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • 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 ... :
  • The Onion, while in its seedly state is liable to be injured by the Slugs.
  • *1894 , Adolf Bastian, Zur mythologie und psychologie der Nigritier in Guinea ... :
  • 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).
  • *1916 , Southern pharmaceutical journal:
  • 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.
  • *1992 , Baltasar Gracian, wit, and the Baroque Age: a rhetorical study:
  • 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 ...