tweedier; tweediest
1
: of or resembling tweed
a tweedy wool blend
2
a
: given to wearing tweeds
b
: informal or suggestive of the outdoors in taste or habits
c
: academic, scholarly
tweedy authors
tweediness noun

Examples of tweedy in a Sentence

The fabric is a tweedy blend of wool and mohair.
Recent Examples on the Web As men's wear grew less formal, Woody Allen would stake a claim on baggy khaki and corduroy as the uniform of a tweedy, tightly wound New Yorker. Joshua Hunt, New York Times, 12 June 2024 Her clothes, increasingly, have a pragmatic femininity, like a number of tweedy bellbottom suits that opened the show, some with vests of blue and coral beads covering the front, or diamond patterns of turquoise and plum sequins on the sleeves. Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Dec. 2022 English cars have a tweedy character, Italian exotics can be fierce, but the French do a sort of wheeled quirkiness that's positively fizzing with zest. Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 17 Nov. 2022 Angela Lansbury is a tweedy country eccentric in wartime England, tootling around on a bronchitic sidecar motorbike and receiving mysterious parcels from a professor in London. Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2022 See all Example Sentences for tweedy 

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Word History

First Known Use

1912, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of tweedy was in 1912

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“Tweedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tweedy. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.

Kids Definition

tweedy

adjective
: of or resembling tweed

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