different between tweed vs tweedy

English

Etymology

Attested since the 1830s. Probably a shortening or back-formation from Scots tweedling (“a type of twilled cloth”), attested since the 16th century and related to tweedle; the two words are variants of tweeling and tweel, which go back to Middle English twel, twyle (“a type of woven fabric; twill”), whence also English twill. Scottish tradition says it derives directly from tweel when an English merchant misread tweels or tweeled (cloth) in an 1831 letter from a Scottish merchant as Tweed(s) and took it to be a trade-name based on the River Tweed, but the DSL says evidence for this is lacking, and because English merchants must have been familiar with tweel(ed cloth) before the 1830s, it seems unlikely to be based on misunderstanding tweel rather than on the well-attested tweedle. Several of the earliest citations, from 1839, 1841, and 1845 treat it as a new name for a familiar cloth.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twi?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d

Noun

tweed (countable and uncountable, plural tweeds)

1. A coarse woolen fabric used for clothing.
   • 1839, Great Britain. Central Criminal Court, Central Criminal Court. Minutes of Evidence, page 75:

     MICHAEL NOWAK, alias John Mazurkiewiez, was indicted for stealing, on the 15th of April, 2 1/4 yards of woollen cloth, called tweed, value 12s., and 2 1/4 yards of woollen cloth, called doe-skin, value 17s., […]

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References

Anagrams

• dewet, dweet, tewed

Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English tweed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?i?di/, [?t??i?di]

Noun

tweed

1. tweed (fabric)

Declension

Synonyms

• tweedkangas

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twid/

Noun

tweed m (uncountable)

1. tweed

Further reading

• “tweed” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Noun

tweed m (uncountable)

1. tweed (coarse woolen fabric)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?twid/, [?t?wið?]

Noun

tweed m (uncountable)

1. tweed

English

Etymology

tweed +? -y

Adjective

tweedy (comparative tweedier, superlative tweediest)

1. (of clothing) made of tweed, or having a similar rough texture
2. (of a person) wearing tweed clothing
3. (of a person) preppy

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