Etymology

weedy

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Today it means: Abounding with weeds. Full definition →

English weed ← Middle English weed ← Old English wēod
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic*weud
  2. Old Englishwēod
  3. Middle Englishweed
  4. Englishweed
  5. English todayweedy

From weed + -y.

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