Definitions
Etymologies
- From Old English wæd, wæde. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Perhaps if we could penetrate Nature's secrets we should find that what we call weeds are more essential to the well-being of the world than the most precious fruit or grain.”
“Perhaps, if we could penetrate Nature's secrets, we should find that what we call weeds are more essential to the well-being of the world than the most precious fruit or grain.”
“It is certainly a true one, for most of the plants which we call weeds grow quickly and well wherever they are allowed to remain.”
“For the place of the weeds is among stones, where the gardener wishes no plants.”
“It was strange to me at first to see how often she introduced those homelier wild-flowers which we call weeds, -- for it seemed there was none of them too humble for her to love, and none too little cared for by Nature to be without its beauty for her artist eye and pencil.”
“I've got to go with the scum frog for stuff in weeds and other stuff and probably a buzzbait for all other purposes.”
“One way to get rid of weeds is to go out in or after a heavy rain and pull them when the ground is soft (even softer than having been manually watered in advance).”
“Knowing the land helps me come to expect certain weeds and spot them more easily.”
“I think of it like I do pulling weeds from the lawn.”
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“I devoted most of my time and strength to disentangling grass and weeds from the wire fence intended to deter the less adventurous rabbit.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘weeds’.
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Keyboard Hopscotch
You may start on any key. You may repeat a character, or travel to an adjacent key on the keyboard. On my qwerty keyboard, I may follow s with w, e, d, x, z, a, or (repeating) s. (If you use az...
assert, weeds, trews, treed, sewer, sewed, seeds, sawer, sawed, reeds, erred, asses and 65 more...
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miltonic
liberty, froth-becurlèd, host, huge-bellied, aghast, rills, gladsom, wrathfull, ordain, thunder-clasping, ruddy, warble and 264 more...
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fearraigh's Words
heretofore, seldom, cunt, calamity, overhead, phalanx, flunky, factotum, terrestrial, dormant, afflatus, periphery and 156 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Aeonn's Words
discombobulation, dank, crass, abolishment, quite, ubiquitous, crank, catapult, sponge, click, queer, irish and 124 more...
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Words that are also TV shows
Trace back the chain of "this idea was ripped off from" over here.
alias, lost, heroes, journeyman, blossom, monk, scrubs, reaper, hack, legend, recess, firefly and 62 more...
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Poetrie: The Map
by Elizabeth Bishop
Land lies in water; it is shadowed green.
Shadows, or are they shallows, at its edges
showing the line of long sea-weeded ledges
where weeds hang ...map-maker, delicate, topography, character, colors, assigned, investigate, agitation, hare, conformation, mapped, smoothness and 23 more...
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outside
its just outside you... could be in this room...
curmudgeon, awe, spill, campfire, pebble, scratch, treelimb, prism, handed, weeds, mortal, birth and 5 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for weeds.
fearraigh I like its archaic synonym for 'livery', as cited above. Feb 21, 2007
brtom And they who to be sure of Paradise
Dying put on the weeds of Dominic,
Or in Franciscan think to pass disguis'd ...
Milton, Paradise Lost III Dec 19, 2006