| 1. | made of or resembling tweed, as in texture, appearance, or the like. |
| 2. | wearing or favoring tweeds, esp. as a mark of a casual, sporty, or intellectual way of life, as at college or in the country: a tweedy sportswoman. |
| 3. | accustomed to, preferring, or characterized by the wearing of tweeds, as in genteel country life or academia: a large and tweedy colony of civil servants and government officials. |
| tweediness | |
noun | |
| 1. | looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth) [syn: coarseness] |
| 2. | an informal, homely, outdoor look characteristic of those who wear tweeds |