tweedy
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.
Origin of tweedy
1Other words from tweedy
- tweed·i·ness, noun
Words Nearby tweedy
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How to use tweedy in a sentence
Pretty is played here, with tweedy purposefulness, by Carey Mulligan.
Mike tweedy, a government employee in Georgia, resolved to leave Mormonism in 2007.
“It used to be that you could not research these things adequately,” tweedy told me.
tweedy had gone online to research a small discrepancy in a pair of Mormon texts.
He was the kind of Ole Miss graduate who came out so studiedly tweedy that he made Harvard Law men look flamboyant.
The Strange and Mysterious Death of Mrs. Jerry Lee Lewis | Richard Ben Cramer | January 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
In 1997, Jeff tweedy introduced “Color Me Impressed” by saying, “Everything we do is based on the Replacements.”
The Return of the Replacements: Here Comes a Regular | Elizabeth Wurtzel | September 13, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe name of a decisive battle (forgotten), frequently remembered by a decisive officer, major Brian Cooper tweedy (remembered).
Ulysses | James JoyceA bend flory and counterflory will be found in the arms of Fellows, a quartering of tweedy.
A Complete Guide to Heraldry | Arthur Charles Fox-DaviesWherever a Veitch and a tweedy met, they fought, and fought to kill.
Highways and Byways in The Border | Andrew LangSame house as Molly's namesake, tweedy, crown solicitor for Waterford.
Ulysses | James JoycePride of Calpe's rocky mount, the ravenhaired daughter of tweedy.
Ulysses | James Joyce
British Dictionary definitions for tweedy
/ (ˈtwiːdɪ) /
of, made of, or resembling tweed
showing a fondness for a hearty outdoor life, usually associated with wearers of tweeds
Derived forms of tweedy
- tweediness, noun
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