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  • adjective superlative form of weedy: most weedy.

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Examples

  • We drafted out all the worst and weediest of the cattle, besides all the old cows, and when we counted the mob out we had nearly eleven hundred first-rate store cattle; lots of fine young bullocks and heifers, more than half fat — altogether a prime well-bred mob that no squatter or dealer could fault in any way if the price was right.

    Robbery Under Arms 2004

  • So off they rushed home, seized the unhappy man, and, without listening to his cries and entreaties, hurried him down to the river bank and flung him — plop! — into the deepest, weediest, and nastiest place they could find.

    The Orange Fairy Book 2003

  • Colin Birch was probably the weediest kid at our school.

    Turning Thirty Mike Gayle 2000

  • Colin Birch was probably the weediest kid at our school.

    Turning Thirty Mike Gayle 2000

  • Colin Birch was probably the weediest kid at our school.

    Turning Thirty Mike Gayle 2000

  • The weediest Tommy in your Company can "carry on."

    The Tree of Heaven May Sinclair 1904

  • In fact I should think he was one of their weediest;

    Saltbush Bill, J. P. 1902

  • Among the seniors -- those who knew every shift and change in the perplexing postal arrangements, the value of the seediest, weediest

    The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Had I not a hundred times been told, when sent to the wood - pile or the weediest part of the garden in my youthful days, that

    Helen's Babies John Habberton 1881

  • We drafted out all the worst and weediest of the cattle, besides all the old cows, and when we counted the mob out we had nearly eleven hundred first-rate store cattle; lots of fine young bullocks and heifers, more than half fat -- altogether a prime well-bred mob that no squatter or dealer could fault in any way if the price was right.

    Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields Rolf Boldrewood 1870

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