[f. WEED sb.2 + -Y1.] Of a woman: Wearing widow’s ‘weeds,’ clad in mourning.
1848. Longf., Life (1891), II. 133. A weedy woman came sweeping up to us, and introduced herself as an admirer.
1850. Dickens, David Copp., xvii. She still wore weeds. I think there was some compromise in the cap; but otherwise she was as weedy as in the early days of her mourning.
1887. Jessopp, Arcady, 155. Think of the blank despair that would take hold of the weedy widows and desolate orphans when they applied for their share of the surplus.
