Definition of tweedy in English:

tweedy

adjectivetweediest, tweedier ˈtwiːdiˈtwidi

1(of a garment) made of tweed cloth.
（衣服）用粗花呢制的
a tweedy suit
粗花呢套装。
Example sentencesExamples
- She had a black floral scarf wrapped around her head, a tan, tweedy skirt, and a purple sweater made of cheap, static material.
- She was wearing a plain tweedy suit with a simple square pendant of some purple gem.
- This is basically a voluminous, trapeze-cut jacket in a tweedy fabric, with kimono-shaped sleeves.
- Do you see that guy over there with the bad haircut in the tweedy jacket?
- This season, a floaty chiffon knee-length skirt paired with a Fair Isle sweater or a tweedy jacket will look extremely hip.
- In the living room, a tweedy wing chair (on deep discount from Ralph Lauren) and an antique chair (discarded from a fitting room) join a plan denim sofa.
- Stick on a pair of wellies with a tweedy number and you can muck out stables, walk the dog or dig the garden.
- I suppose any tweedy golfing trousers would do.
- When Iain turned up to meet me for the first time, he was wearing these odd, tweedy clothes and had long hair, which was very uncool for the era.
- He is a trim, nice-looking 72-year-old wearing a tweedy jacket and spiffy tasselled loafers.
- He has that old-fashioned chivalry that makes him wear a shirt and tie, and his tweedy jacket reminds me of one my dad used to wear.
- Excruciatingly tight corsets, puffball skirts made of netting and tweedy twinsets minus the midriff have been some of the more extreme looks wowing fashion followers at the catwalk collections in Paris.
- Never wear a matching two-piece tweed suit, but break it up by putting on a pair of baggy, mannish trousers or jeans with a pretty, shrunken, tweedy jacket.
- But she left the apartment in tweedy jackets with big shoulder pads and blue eye shadow.
- Oh yes, the great, the double-barrelled and the weak chinned were all there in their green tweedy finery.
- It's a lovely smell, tweedy somehow, reminiscent of teacher's jackets and the faint tobacco scent my grandfather used to have about him when he gave you a hug or, if you were too grown up for a hug, a friendly arm across the shoulder.
- His rather musty, tweedy jacket made him look oddly like a careers adviser.
- All bundled up as if was expecting cold weather, he was wearing a long, tweedy coat, a bunch of scarves twisted around his head so you could hardly see his face.
- Designers have taken the bulk, and some of the frumpery, out of sensible tweedy fabrics to give these jackets a nostalgic, vaguely Forties or Fifties air.
- Around the sides of the room are tweedy chairs, at the top is a long table.
1. 1.1informal Habitually wearing tweed clothes.
  〈非正式〉（人）常穿粗花呢衣服的
  a stout, tweedy woman
  一个常穿粗花呢衣服的矮胖女人。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Though he works for a fictional firm, the stature and trappings are old school, and his cohort of young associates all have the scrubbed and tweedy Harvard look about them.
  He was the picture of the tweedy, eccentric professor, bookish and reclusive.
  A child psychiatrist and the medical director of the CD-CP, he is tweedy and bearlike, with curly brown hair and a salt-and-pepper beard.
  Pass him on the street, and the first impression would be tweedy intellectual.
  He's an unlikely rebel, a tweedy biology professor who's found himself at the center of one of the year's most ferocious debates.
  And there was the same guy sitting out in front of the library, chatting to some other tweedy academic type.
  For some reason I always imagined the author to be some tweedy pipe smoking gentleman - so I was surprised to discover the author's name behind the initials - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall!
2. 1.2informal Of a robust traditional or rural character (by association with the country gentry who traditionally wear tweeds)
  〈非正式〉粗豪的
  a tweedy gathering of the Cheshire young farmers
  一次柴郡年轻农场主的粗豪聚会。
  Example sentencesExamples
  No longer will some red-faced tweedy type, shotgun under the arm, be likely to block their path and order them: ‘Get orf my land!’
  Has it got anything to do with fishing being a rural, quarry sport, too closely associated, often erroneously, with tweedy people who shoot things?
  Synonyms
  landowning, landed, upper-class, well born, high-born, noble-born, noble, aristocratic, patrician, titled, blue-blooded, born with a silver spoon in one's mouth

Derivatives

tweedily

adverb

The former is a flamboyant actor, the latter a tweedily sedate director.
Example sentencesExamples
- She is the ultimate symbol of resourceful, tweedily eccentric British womanhood, of the old gals who go stamping across the heath in the wild rain, looking for stuffed shirts to poke with their umbrellas.

tweediness

noun

No actor has ever taken an on-screen beating better, and no one's ever shifted as effortlessly between tweediness and scruffiness.
Example sentencesExamples
- I wanted as much of the tweediness as I could manage, and a fairly homogeneous color, so I plied two bobbins of two-ply yarn and then plied the results together.
- I didn't realize that yarn had that tweediness to it… I love it even more now.
- I wanted an ostentatiously tweed jacket that would demonstrate by its utter tweediness that it was better (ie, more expensive) than any other - and maybe suggest by its elegance that I'd ascended out of my class into a better one.
- That's really nice looking, but a little tweediness would have been nice, unless its leather, then forget everything I said.

Rhymes

beady, greedy, needy, reedy, seedy, speedy, weedy

Definition of tweedy in US English:

tweedy

adjectiveˈtwēdēˈtwidi

1(of a garment) made of tweed cloth.
（衣服）用粗花呢制的
a tweedy suit
粗花呢套装。
Example sentencesExamples
- He has that old-fashioned chivalry that makes him wear a shirt and tie, and his tweedy jacket reminds me of one my dad used to wear.
- Never wear a matching two-piece tweed suit, but break it up by putting on a pair of baggy, mannish trousers or jeans with a pretty, shrunken, tweedy jacket.
- She had a black floral scarf wrapped around her head, a tan, tweedy skirt, and a purple sweater made of cheap, static material.
- It's a lovely smell, tweedy somehow, reminiscent of teacher's jackets and the faint tobacco scent my grandfather used to have about him when he gave you a hug or, if you were too grown up for a hug, a friendly arm across the shoulder.
- He is a trim, nice-looking 72-year-old wearing a tweedy jacket and spiffy tasselled loafers.
- Do you see that guy over there with the bad haircut in the tweedy jacket?
- But she left the apartment in tweedy jackets with big shoulder pads and blue eye shadow.
- She was wearing a plain tweedy suit with a simple square pendant of some purple gem.
- This season, a floaty chiffon knee-length skirt paired with a Fair Isle sweater or a tweedy jacket will look extremely hip.
- Stick on a pair of wellies with a tweedy number and you can muck out stables, walk the dog or dig the garden.
- This is basically a voluminous, trapeze-cut jacket in a tweedy fabric, with kimono-shaped sleeves.
- Around the sides of the room are tweedy chairs, at the top is a long table.
- Designers have taken the bulk, and some of the frumpery, out of sensible tweedy fabrics to give these jackets a nostalgic, vaguely Forties or Fifties air.
- All bundled up as if was expecting cold weather, he was wearing a long, tweedy coat, a bunch of scarves twisted around his head so you could hardly see his face.
- His rather musty, tweedy jacket made him look oddly like a careers adviser.
- Oh yes, the great, the double-barrelled and the weak chinned were all there in their green tweedy finery.
- I suppose any tweedy golfing trousers would do.
- In the living room, a tweedy wing chair (on deep discount from Ralph Lauren) and an antique chair (discarded from a fitting room) join a plan denim sofa.
- Excruciatingly tight corsets, puffball skirts made of netting and tweedy twinsets minus the midriff have been some of the more extreme looks wowing fashion followers at the catwalk collections in Paris.
- When Iain turned up to meet me for the first time, he was wearing these odd, tweedy clothes and had long hair, which was very uncool for the era.
1. 1.1informal (of a person) habitually wearing tweed clothes.
  〈非正式〉（人）常穿粗花呢衣服的
  a stout, tweedy woman
  一个常穿粗花呢衣服的矮胖女人。
  Example sentencesExamples
  And there was the same guy sitting out in front of the library, chatting to some other tweedy academic type.
  Pass him on the street, and the first impression would be tweedy intellectual.
  A child psychiatrist and the medical director of the CD-CP, he is tweedy and bearlike, with curly brown hair and a salt-and-pepper beard.
  For some reason I always imagined the author to be some tweedy pipe smoking gentleman - so I was surprised to discover the author's name behind the initials - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall!
  Though he works for a fictional firm, the stature and trappings are old school, and his cohort of young associates all have the scrubbed and tweedy Harvard look about them.
  He was the picture of the tweedy, eccentric professor, bookish and reclusive.
  He's an unlikely rebel, a tweedy biology professor who's found himself at the center of one of the year's most ferocious debates.
2. 1.2informal Of a refined, traditional, upscale character.
  the tweedy world of books
  Example sentencesExamples
  Has it got anything to do with fishing being a rural, quarry sport, too closely associated, often erroneously, with tweedy people who shoot things?
  No longer will some red-faced tweedy type, shotgun under the arm, be likely to block their path and order them: ‘Get orf my land!’
  Synonyms
  landowning, landed, upper-class, well born, high-born, noble-born, noble, aristocratic, patrician, titled, blue-blooded, born with a silver spoon in one's mouth

词汇	tweedy
释义	Definition of tweedy in English: tweedy adjectivetweediest, tweedier ˈtwiːdiˈtwidi 1(of a garment) made of tweed cloth. （衣服）用粗花呢制的 a tweedy suit 粗花呢套装。 Example sentencesExamples She had a black floral scarf wrapped around her head, a tan, tweedy skirt, and a purple sweater made of cheap, static material. She was wearing a plain tweedy suit with a simple square pendant of some purple gem. This is basically a voluminous, trapeze-cut jacket in a tweedy fabric, with kimono-shaped sleeves. Do you see that guy over there with the bad haircut in the tweedy jacket? This season, a floaty chiffon knee-length skirt paired with a Fair Isle sweater or a tweedy jacket will look extremely hip. In the living room, a tweedy wing chair (on deep discount from Ralph Lauren) and an antique chair (discarded from a fitting room) join a plan denim sofa. Stick on a pair of wellies with a tweedy number and you can muck out stables, walk the dog or dig the garden. I suppose any tweedy golfing trousers would do. When Iain turned up to meet me for the first time, he was wearing these odd, tweedy clothes and had long hair, which was very uncool for the era. He is a trim, nice-looking 72-year-old wearing a tweedy jacket and spiffy tasselled loafers. He has that old-fashioned chivalry that makes him wear a shirt and tie, and his tweedy jacket reminds me of one my dad used to wear. Excruciatingly tight corsets, puffball skirts made of netting and tweedy twinsets minus the midriff have been some of the more extreme looks wowing fashion followers at the catwalk collections in Paris. Never wear a matching two-piece tweed suit, but break it up by putting on a pair of baggy, mannish trousers or jeans with a pretty, shrunken, tweedy jacket. But she left the apartment in tweedy jackets with big shoulder pads and blue eye shadow. Oh yes, the great, the double-barrelled and the weak chinned were all there in their green tweedy finery. It's a lovely smell, tweedy somehow, reminiscent of teacher's jackets and the faint tobacco scent my grandfather used to have about him when he gave you a hug or, if you were too grown up for a hug, a friendly arm across the shoulder. His rather musty, tweedy jacket made him look oddly like a careers adviser. All bundled up as if was expecting cold weather, he was wearing a long, tweedy coat, a bunch of scarves twisted around his head so you could hardly see his face. Designers have taken the bulk, and some of the frumpery, out of sensible tweedy fabrics to give these jackets a nostalgic, vaguely Forties or Fifties air. Around the sides of the room are tweedy chairs, at the top is a long table. 1.1informal Habitually wearing tweed clothes. 〈非正式〉（人）常穿粗花呢衣服的 a stout, tweedy woman 一个常穿粗花呢衣服的矮胖女人。 Example sentencesExamples Though he works for a fictional firm, the stature and trappings are old school, and his cohort of young associates all have the scrubbed and tweedy Harvard look about them. He was the picture of the tweedy, eccentric professor, bookish and reclusive. A child psychiatrist and the medical director of the CD-CP, he is tweedy and bearlike, with curly brown hair and a salt-and-pepper beard. Pass him on the street, and the first impression would be tweedy intellectual. He's an unlikely rebel, a tweedy biology professor who's found himself at the center of one of the year's most ferocious debates. And there was the same guy sitting out in front of the library, chatting to some other tweedy academic type. For some reason I always imagined the author to be some tweedy pipe smoking gentleman - so I was surprised to discover the author's name behind the initials - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall! 1.2informal Of a robust traditional or rural character (by association with the country gentry who traditionally wear tweeds) 〈非正式〉粗豪的 a tweedy gathering of the Cheshire young farmers 一次柴郡年轻农场主的粗豪聚会。 Example sentencesExamples No longer will some red-faced tweedy type, shotgun under the arm, be likely to block their path and order them: ‘Get orf my land!’ Has it got anything to do with fishing being a rural, quarry sport, too closely associated, often erroneously, with tweedy people who shoot things? Synonyms landowning, landed, upper-class, well born, high-born, noble-born, noble, aristocratic, patrician, titled, blue-blooded, born with a silver spoon in one's mouth Derivatives tweedily adverb The former is a flamboyant actor, the latter a tweedily sedate director. Example sentencesExamples She is the ultimate symbol of resourceful, tweedily eccentric British womanhood, of the old gals who go stamping across the heath in the wild rain, looking for stuffed shirts to poke with their umbrellas. tweediness noun No actor has ever taken an on-screen beating better, and no one's ever shifted as effortlessly between tweediness and scruffiness. Example sentencesExamples I wanted as much of the tweediness as I could manage, and a fairly homogeneous color, so I plied two bobbins of two-ply yarn and then plied the results together. I didn't realize that yarn had that tweediness to it… I love it even more now. I wanted an ostentatiously tweed jacket that would demonstrate by its utter tweediness that it was better (ie, more expensive) than any other - and maybe suggest by its elegance that I'd ascended out of my class into a better one. That's really nice looking, but a little tweediness would have been nice, unless its leather, then forget everything I said. Rhymes beady, greedy, needy, reedy, seedy, speedy, weedy Definition of tweedy in US English: tweedy adjectiveˈtwēdēˈtwidi 1(of a garment) made of tweed cloth. （衣服）用粗花呢制的 a tweedy suit 粗花呢套装。 Example sentencesExamples He has that old-fashioned chivalry that makes him wear a shirt and tie, and his tweedy jacket reminds me of one my dad used to wear. Never wear a matching two-piece tweed suit, but break it up by putting on a pair of baggy, mannish trousers or jeans with a pretty, shrunken, tweedy jacket. She had a black floral scarf wrapped around her head, a tan, tweedy skirt, and a purple sweater made of cheap, static material. It's a lovely smell, tweedy somehow, reminiscent of teacher's jackets and the faint tobacco scent my grandfather used to have about him when he gave you a hug or, if you were too grown up for a hug, a friendly arm across the shoulder. He is a trim, nice-looking 72-year-old wearing a tweedy jacket and spiffy tasselled loafers. Do you see that guy over there with the bad haircut in the tweedy jacket? But she left the apartment in tweedy jackets with big shoulder pads and blue eye shadow. She was wearing a plain tweedy suit with a simple square pendant of some purple gem. This season, a floaty chiffon knee-length skirt paired with a Fair Isle sweater or a tweedy jacket will look extremely hip. Stick on a pair of wellies with a tweedy number and you can muck out stables, walk the dog or dig the garden. This is basically a voluminous, trapeze-cut jacket in a tweedy fabric, with kimono-shaped sleeves. Around the sides of the room are tweedy chairs, at the top is a long table. Designers have taken the bulk, and some of the frumpery, out of sensible tweedy fabrics to give these jackets a nostalgic, vaguely Forties or Fifties air. All bundled up as if was expecting cold weather, he was wearing a long, tweedy coat, a bunch of scarves twisted around his head so you could hardly see his face. His rather musty, tweedy jacket made him look oddly like a careers adviser. Oh yes, the great, the double-barrelled and the weak chinned were all there in their green tweedy finery. I suppose any tweedy golfing trousers would do. In the living room, a tweedy wing chair (on deep discount from Ralph Lauren) and an antique chair (discarded from a fitting room) join a plan denim sofa. Excruciatingly tight corsets, puffball skirts made of netting and tweedy twinsets minus the midriff have been some of the more extreme looks wowing fashion followers at the catwalk collections in Paris. When Iain turned up to meet me for the first time, he was wearing these odd, tweedy clothes and had long hair, which was very uncool for the era. 1.1informal (of a person) habitually wearing tweed clothes. 〈非正式〉（人）常穿粗花呢衣服的 a stout, tweedy woman 一个常穿粗花呢衣服的矮胖女人。 Example sentencesExamples And there was the same guy sitting out in front of the library, chatting to some other tweedy academic type. Pass him on the street, and the first impression would be tweedy intellectual. A child psychiatrist and the medical director of the CD-CP, he is tweedy and bearlike, with curly brown hair and a salt-and-pepper beard. For some reason I always imagined the author to be some tweedy pipe smoking gentleman - so I was surprised to discover the author's name behind the initials - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall! Though he works for a fictional firm, the stature and trappings are old school, and his cohort of young associates all have the scrubbed and tweedy Harvard look about them. He was the picture of the tweedy, eccentric professor, bookish and reclusive. He's an unlikely rebel, a tweedy biology professor who's found himself at the center of one of the year's most ferocious debates. 1.2informal Of a refined, traditional, upscale character. the tweedy world of books Example sentencesExamples Has it got anything to do with fishing being a rural, quarry sport, too closely associated, often erroneously, with tweedy people who shoot things? No longer will some red-faced tweedy type, shotgun under the arm, be likely to block their path and order them: ‘Get orf my land!’ Synonyms landowning, landed, upper-class, well born, high-born, noble-born, noble, aristocratic, patrician, titled, blue-blooded, born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
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