Hypertext Webster Gateway: "seedy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Seedy \Seed"y\, a. [Compar. {Seedier}; superl. {Seediest}.]
1. Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
2. Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the
weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of
French brandy.
3. Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and
miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as,
he looked seedy coat. [Colloq.]
Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we
say among us that practice the law. --Goldsmith.
{Seedy toe}, an affection of a horse's foot, in which a
cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the
lamin[ae] and the wall of the hoof.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
seedy
adj 1: full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig" [ant: {seedless}]
2: shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he
was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain
[syn: {scruffy}]
3: morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of
life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy
storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly;
"the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very
nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of
intrigue and betrayal" [syn: {seamy}, {sleazy}, {sordid},
{squalid}]
4: weak and feeble; "I'm feeling seedy today" [syn: {debilitated},
{enfeebled}, {infirm}]
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