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weeds

nounverbnounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//wiːdz//

Clothes.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of weedplural of weed

Etymology

Inflected form of weed.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of weedthird-person singular simple present indicative of weed

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteClothes.

    Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds;

    What sight is this? What company of women Is wending hitherward, in sable weeds Conspicuous?

Etymology

From Old English wǣd, wǣde, from Proto-Germanic *wēdiz (“piece of cloth, garment”).

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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