seedy
a. 多种子的, 结籽的, 破烂的, 肮脏的
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1.
Literal senses:
Containing or full of seeds.
Pomegranates are as seedy as any fruit you are likely to see.
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2.
Literal senses:
Seedlike; having the flavour of seeds.
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Literal senses:
Having a peculiar flavour supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; said of certain kinds of French brandy.
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Inferior in condition or quality.
Shabby, run-down, possibly connected with bad, dishonest or illegal activities, somewhat disreputable.
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Inferior in condition or quality.
Untidy, unkempt.
比喻His seedy, dirt-smudged visage caused her to look at him askance.
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Inferior in condition or quality.
Infirm, unwell, gone to seed.
比喻With her aching back and pronounced limp, she was feeling particularly seedy today.
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Inferior in condition or quality.
Suffering the effects of a hangover.
比喻After last night’s party we were all feeling pretty seedy.
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From Middle English sedy, equivalent to seed + -y. The senses with negative connotation, first attested by 1725 in slang, originally especially “poor, out of money”, probably arose from the metaphor of a flower that has gone to seed, and is no longer considered beautiful. From there the word came to be used to describe unwell or past-their-prime people, and parallelly run-down places and by extension low-income or crime-affected urban areas. Compare the figurative expressions go to seed (by 1817), etc., originally in reference to plants, “cease flowering as seeds develop”.
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