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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Moist; watery.

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  • adjective Northern England, Scotland Moist; damp; clammy.
  • adjective Northern England, Scotland Juicy; mellow.
  • adjective Northern England, Scotland Watery.
  • adjective Northern England, Scotland Pliant; soft.

Etymologies

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From English dialectal *weak ("moist, moisture") +‎ -y. *Weak derives from Middle English *weke, *wak, *wok, from Old Norse vǫkr ("moist, damp, wet") and Old Norse vǫkvi, vǫkva ("moisture, juice"), from Proto-Germanic *wakwaz (“moist”) and *wakwô, *wakwijô (“moisture, wetness, open water, icehole”), from Proto-Indo-European *wogʷ- (“wet”). Cognate with Scots wak, wakke, waik ("moist, damp, wet", also "moisture, wetness"), Middle Dutch wac ("flexible, liquid, moist, soft"), Modern Dutch wak ("ice-hole, blowhole"), Middle Low German wake ("hole in the ice, open water in the ice"), Swedish vak ("hole in the ice"), Icelandic vökur ("moist"), Icelandic vökvi, vökva ("fluid"), Latin ūmeō ("be wet, moist, damp", v). Related to wack. Compare also voky, woky.

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Examples

  • SLIWA: The freaky weaky and the jiggle wiggle for $4,000.

    CNN Transcript May 5, 2009 2009

  • And, as every school child knows, the Romans tended to divide conquered territories into three parts, calling them, according to that work of genius, "1066 And All That", weeny, weedy and weaky.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Richard 2007

  • For Kagan, the Europeans, to adapt an earlier exercise in imperial hubris, are "weeny, weedy and weaky."

    America and the World Judt, Tony 2003

  • Caze I heard dem two little gals havin 'a big talk in dat room next to me last night; you knows dat's a mighty weaky boardin' 'tween dose rooms and a pusson don't have to listen to hear.

    Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912

  • Report Abuse suns are a buttful squad coin out dat weak west ya heard, weaky? cavssucksballs "class =" userIcon "height =" 24 "width =" 24 "/>

    Yahoo! Sports - Top News 2009

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