weedery

English

Etymology

From weed +‎ -ery.

Noun

weedery (countable and uncountable, plural weederies)

1. Weeds collectively.
2. A place full of weeds or used for growing weeds.
   • 1640 (date written), H[enry] M[ore], “ΨΥΧΟΖΩΙΑ [Psychozōia], or A Christiano-platonicall Display of Life, […]”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, published 1642, →OCLC, book 2, stanza 72, page 35:

     Hard by there was a place, all covered o're / With ſtinging nettles and ſuch weedery, / The pricking thiſtle the hard'ſt legs would gore, / Under the wall a ſtrait dore we deſcry: / The wall hight Self-conceit; the doore Humility.

3. (informal) A legal marijuana dispensary.
   • 2014 April 19, Chad Garland, “Dispensary rules leave Oregon pot test labs unregulated”, in The Herald, Everett, Washington:

     Bee Young, owner of the state-licensed dispensary Wickit Weedery in Springfield, said she’s seen testing prices jump from $75 before the dispensary rules went into effect in March to $250 since.

   • 2015, Christian Hageseth, Joseph D'Agnese, Big Weed: An Entrepreneur's High-Stakes Adventures in the Budding Legal Marijuana Business, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 2–3:

     My name is Christian Hageseth and I sell marijuana for a living. Honest-to-goodness, legal marijuana. The building my architect just designed for me? It's destined to be the world's first weedery.

   • 2015 August 11, Stuart Miller, “Marijuana Legalization in Colorado Leads to First ‘Weedery’”, in The New York Times:

     Wineries and breweries should brace themselves for some unusual competition. Colorado, which legalized marijuana for recreational use in 2012, will get its first “weedery” in early 2016.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “weedery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)