Weeds vs Weens - What's the difference?
weeds | weens |
(weed)
(obsolete) Clothes.
* 1600 , , v 3
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(ween)
(label) To suppose, imagine; to think, believe.
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*:And ryght as Arthur was on horsbak / ther cam a damoisel from Morgan le fey and broughte vnto syr Arthur a swerd lyke vnto Excalibur // and sayd vnto Arthur Morgan le fey sendeth here your swerd for grete loue / and he thanked her / & wende it had ben so / but she was fals / for the swerd and the scaubard was counterfeet & brutyll and fals
*1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. (Bible) , (w) VIII:
*:Then sayde Peter unto hym: Perissh thou and thy money togedder. For thou wenest that the gyfte of god maye be obteyned with money?
(label) To expect, hope or wish.
As verbs the difference between weeds and weens
is that weeds is (weed) while weens is (ween).As a noun weeds
is or weeds can be (obsolete) clothes.weeds
English
Etymology 1
Inflected form of (weed).Noun
(head)Verb
(head)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en-plural noun)- Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds ;
- Nor can the judicious reader be at a greater loss on account of Mrs Bridget Blifil, who, he may be assured, conducted herself through the whole season in which grief is to make its appearance on the outside of the body, with the strictest regard to all the rules of custom and decency, suiting the alterations of her countenance to the several alterations of her habit: for as this changed from weeds to black, from black to grey, from grey to white, so did her countenance change from dismal to sorrowful, from sorrowful to sad, and from sad to serious, till the day came in which she was allowed to return to her former serenity.