weeding

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
weed/wiːd/

▶noun

• 1 a wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated plants.

• 2 informal cannabis.

  ■ (the weed) tobacco.

• 3 Brit. informal a contemptibly feeble person.

• 4 informal a leggy, loosely built horse.

▶verb

• 1 remove weeds from.

• 2 (weed something out) remove unwanted items or members from something.

– derivatives
weeder noun,
weedless adjective.

– origin OE wēod (n.), wēodian (v.), of unknown origin.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wee1

▶adjective (weer, weest) chiefly Scottish little.

– origin ME (orig. a noun use in Scots, usu. as a little wee ‘a little bit’): from OE wēg(e) (see wey).

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wee2 informal, chiefly Brit.

▶noun an act of urinating.

■ urine.

▶verb (wees, weeing, weed) urinate.

– origin 1930s: imitative.