reedy
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1. reedy - Adjective
2. reedy - Adjective Satellite
3. Reedy - Proper noun
Meaning
Abounding with reeds; covered with reeds.
Having the quality of reed in tone, that is, ///// and thin^ as some voices.
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I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.
Nought but a lovely sighing of the wind Along the reedy stream; a half-heard strain, Full of sweet desolation-balmy pain.
I'll follow the reedy tenor of his excuses and blast them with the bellowy bass of irrefutable logic!
My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room.
Then I hid me close to the reedy tarn, Where the mammoth came to drink; Through brawn and bone I drave the stone And slew him upon the brink.
"As for his guitar technique, it's politely reedy but ambitiously eclectic—moving effortlessly from hen-picking and bottleneck slides to a full deck of chucka-chucka rhythm figures."