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tweedy

/ˈtwiːdi/
twee · dy
Adverb:tweedily
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1

Made of, resembling, or dressed in tweed fabric.

Example

"The professor wore a heavy, tweedy jacket with leather patches on the elbows."

2

Associated with a traditional, bookish, or upper-class British country lifestyle, often perceived as conservatively academic or outdoorsy.

Example

"The small college town had a distinctly tweedy atmosphere, filled with secondhand bookshops and quiet tea rooms."

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• Rhymes for tweedy

• Nearby Words

tweed
tweed river
tweeds
tweedy
tween
tweenage
tweenager

Word Origin & Etymology

Formed from 'tweed' plus the adjectival suffix '-y'. The word 'tweed' itself originated in the 1830s as a trade misreading of the Scots word 'tweel' (twill), influenced by the River Tweed in a region of Scotland famous for its woolen textiles.

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Wordmom. (2026). Definition of Tweedy. In Wordmom Dictionary. Retrieved Nov 5, 2026, from https://wordmom.com/dictionary/tweedy
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