seedy
adjEtymology
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”.
- inherited from sedy
Definitions
Literal senses
Literal senses:
- Pomegranates are as seedy as any fruit you are likely to see.
Inferior in condition or quality.
- Sleazy city / Seedy films / Breathing so heavy / Next to my neighbour / Let’s get acquainted
- The healing power of alcohol / Only works on scrapes and nicks / And not on girls in seedy bars / Who drown themselves in it
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for seedy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA