weed

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable) Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of duckweed.
3. (archaic, obsolete, uncountable) Underbrush; low shrubs.
4. (informal, uncountable) A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
5. (colloquial, uncountable) A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
6. (countable, obsolete) A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
7. (countable) A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
8. (British, countable, informal) A puny person; one who has little physical strength.
9. (countable, figuratively) Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

Verb

1. (transitive) To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area (especially grass).
2. (figuratively, transitive) To pilfer the best items from a collection.
3. (transitive) To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria.

Verb

simple past and past participle of wee

wee

• Adj
• Noun
• Noun
• Verb
• Pron

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Synonyms

grass

hoe

weeds

Mary Jane

clean

ganja

herb

🌿

marijuana

pot

plant

🌱

goosefoot

uproot

green goddess

dope

mourning band

smoke

gage

sess

wild grass

pull out

sens

turn over

pull up

locoweed

clear of weeds

marihuana

skunk

🦨

shoot up

shrub

slaughter

straw

stub

tare

bundle of straw

cut grass

endo

cannabis

make a border

unwanted flora

nardoo

ill weed

tall grasses

monday morning disease

sporadic lymphangitis

Mountain Thistle

African embossed plant

graminaceous plants

yarndie

insangu

ganj

Translations

désherber

sarcler

Unkraut

erbaccia

jäten

mauvaise herbe

herbe

maleza

hierba

🌿

onkruid

schoffelen

wieden

escardar

diserbare

malerba

Pronounced as (IPA)

/wiːd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: weed

Inherited from Old English: wēod

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Jood

Cognate with Western Frisian: wjûd

Cognate with Dutch: wied

Cognate with Old High German: wiota

Inherited from Middle English: weeden

Inherited from Old English: wēodian

Cognate with Western Frisian: wjûde

Cognate with Dutch: wieden

Inherited from Middle English: wede

Inherited from Old English: wǣd

Cognate with Dutch: lijnwaad

Cognate with Dutch: gewaad

Cognate with German: Wat

In summary

From Middle English weed, weod, from Old English wēod (“weed”), from Proto-West Germanic *weud (“weed”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jood (“weed”), West Frisian wjûd (“weed”), Dutch wied (“unwanted plant, weed”), German Low German Weed (“weed”), Old High German wiota (“fern”). See also woad.