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duckweed
English
Etymology
duck +? weed. Supposedly so-named for often being consumed by ducks and other waterfowl.
Noun
duckweed (countable and uncountable, plural duckweeds or duckweed)
- Any of several reduced floating aquatic plants in the subfamily Lemnoideae of the family Araceae.
- 1909, H. G. Wells, The Beautiful Suit
- But his face was a face of such happiness that, had you seen it, you would have understood indeed how that he had died happy, never knowing that cool and streaming silver for the duckweed in the pond.
- 1909, H. G. Wells, The Beautiful Suit
Translations
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weed
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wi?d/
- Rhymes: -i?d
- Homophone: we'd
Etymology 1
From Middle English weed, weod, from Old English w?od (“weed”), from Proto-West Germanic *weud, from Proto-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”).
Noun
weed (countable and uncountable, plural weeds)
- (countable) Any plant regarded as unwanted at the place where, and at the time when it is growing.
- Short for duckweed.
- (uncountable, archaic or obsolete) Underbrush; low shrubs.
- A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
- (uncountable, slang) Cannabis.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana
- (with "the", uncountable, slang) Tobacco.
- (obsolete, countable) A cigar.
- (uncountable, slang) Cannabis.
- (countable) A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
- (countable, Britain, informal) A puny person; one who has little physical strength.
- (countable, figuratively) Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- grow like a weed
- weeds
Etymology 2
From Middle English weeden, weden, from Old English w?odian (“to weed”), from Proto-Germanic *weud?n? (“to uproot, weed”). Cognate with West Frisian wjûde, wjudde (“to weed”),Dutch wieden (“to weed”), German Low German weden (“to weed”).
Verb
weed (third-person singular simple present weeds, present participle weeding, simple past and past participle weeded)
- To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.
- I weeded my flower bed.
- (library science) To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria.
- We usually weed romance novels that haven't circulated in over a year.
Translations
See also
- weed out
Etymology 3
From Middle English wede, from Old English w?d (“dress, attire, clothing, garment”), from Proto-Germanic *w?diz, from which also wad, wadmal. Cognate with Dutch lijnwaad, Dutch gewaad, German Wat.
Noun
weed (plural weeds)
- (archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 5 p. 75[2]:
- Shee, in a watchet weed, with manie a curious wave
- Which as a princelie gift great Amphitrite gave
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 5 p. 75[2]:
- (archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 5 Scene 3
- DON PEDRO. Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds;
- And then to Leonato's we will go.
- CLAUDIO. And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's,
- Than this for whom we rend'red up this woe!
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 5 Scene 3
- (archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.
- (archaic, especially in the plural as "widow's weeds") (Female) mourning apparel.
- 1641, John Milton, Of Reformation in England, Second Book:
- In a mourning weed, with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing.
- 1641, John Milton, Of Reformation in England, Second Book:
Translations
Etymology 4
From Scots weid, weed. The longer form weidinonfa, wytenonfa (Old Scots wedonynpha) is attested since the 1500s. Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language analyses the longer form as a compound meaning "onfa(ll) of a weed", whereas the Scottish National Dictionary/DSL considers the short form a derivative of the longer form, and derives its first element from Old English w?dan (“to be mad or delirious”), from w?d (“mad, enraged”).
Noun
weed (plural weeds)
- (Scotland) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.
- 1822, William Campbell, Observations on the Disease usually termed Puerperal Fever, with Cases, in The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 18:
- The patient […] aborted between the second and third month; […] felt herself so well on the second day after, that she went to the washing-green; and, on her return home in the evening, was seized with a violent rigor, which, by herself and those around her, was considered as the forerunner of a weed.
- 1822, William Campbell, Observations on the Disease usually termed Puerperal Fever, with Cases, in The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 18:
- (Scotland) Lymphangitis in a horse.
Etymology 5
From the verb wee.
Verb
weed
- simple past tense and past participle of wee
References
- weed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- Webster, Noah (1828) , “weed”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
- (tobacco; a cigar): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
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