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Adjective: tweedy (tweedier,tweediest)  twee-dee
  1. Of textiles; having a rough surface
    "a sweater knitted of nubbly tweedy yarns";
    - homespun, nubby, nubbly, slubbed
     
  2. (of country gentry) informal, clannish and outdoorsy
    "The tweedy professor looked right at home in the rural setting"

Derived forms: tweedier, tweediest

See also: posh [Brit, informal], rough, unsmooth, upper-class

Encyclopedia: Tweedy, George